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You Can’t Con An Honest Man & The Case of Jason Arday
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Wolfgang Smith For Everyone
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Death By Organ Donation
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Hume’s Guillotine, Euclid’s Catapult: Induction, Axioms, and Objective Ethics
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The Equality Paradox
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Happy Birthday to US
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Never Use Or Trust P-values (Pagan-Values)
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The Intellectual Capacity Of Women by David Stove
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Marbles!
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You Can’t Con An Honest Man & The Case of Jason Arday

Posted by By Briggs August 10, 2026
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Academics: Achieve Sustainability by Easing Population to 4 Billion by 2200

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The Bizarre, And Really Quite Hilarious, Belief In Male & Female Equality
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The Bizarre, And Really Quite Hilarious, Belief In Male & Female Equality

Marilyn "vos Savant" scored one major victory in her life. (More than most.) She correctly (copied? noodled?) the correct answer to the Monty Hall problem. Which by itself is only…
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The Greatest Reset Movie — In Which Yours Truly Has A Cameo
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The Greatest Reset Movie — In Which Yours Truly Has A Cameo

Last summer a pair of gentlemen came to interview me about the coronadoom. It was to be for the movie The Greatest Reset. Which is now out. (It's free, but…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: On Matrimony
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Summary Against Modern Thought: On Matrimony

Previous post. We walk down the aisle this week. Today's lesson is: get married, have babies. ON THE SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY 1 Now, we grant that by the sacraments men…
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The Non-Wisdom Of Crowds And Voting
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The Non-Wisdom Of Crowds And Voting

This post first appeared in modified form on 29 Januarty 2014. It also appears (also modified) in Chapter 4 of Everything You Believe Is Wrong. Have you heard of Mesd-su-Re?…
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The Regime’s Compulsion To Scientific Lunacy Explained (Partly)
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The Regime’s Compulsion To Scientific Lunacy Explained (Partly)

We met our favorite headline the other day: Climate Change Destroys World, Pregnant People Hardest Hit. A version of that headline rolls off the science press about weekly, now. They…
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The Real Sin Of The Expertocracy With Covid
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The Real Sin Of The Expertocracy With Covid

You're sick. Not doing at all well. You go to a celebrated doctor (God bless you for trusting him) at a major hospital. Guy was recommended by many as knowing…
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Do We Join In The Insanity, Withdraw, Or Fix It?
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Do We Join In The Insanity, Withdraw, Or Fix It?

To what extent do you owe loyalty to a once beloved friend, who in his youth was wise and sober and vigorous, but who has now descended into a kind…
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How I Became A  Renegade Scientist
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How I Became A Renegade Scientist

This old picture of myself and a fellow outlaw is given as proof of my deep anti-social propensities. A friend of mine, long ago, would sit and listen to George…
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