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Does Watching TV Cause Autism?
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Peer-Reviewed Research: Men Find Looking At Nearly Naked Women Distracting
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Does Watching TV Cause Autism?

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Peer-Reviewed Research: Men Find Looking At Nearly Naked Women Distracting

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More Proof Hypothesis Testing Is Wrong & Why The Predictive Method Is The Only Sane Way To Do Statistics
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More Proof Hypothesis Testing Is Wrong & Why The Predictive Method Is The Only Sane Way To Do Statistics

Here it is, friends, the one complete universal simple function, the only function you will ever need to fit any---I said any---dataset x. And all it takes is one---I said…
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The New CDC Masks Mandate Study Is Not Good
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The New CDC Masks Mandate Study Is Not Good

https://twitter.com/ianmSC/status/1442965194150457344 How would you check if mask mandates worked in schools? I can think of only one way. Contrast kids in schools with mandates and in those without. Get them…
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Spartacus Speaks; Australian Head Knocking; MI Bright Spot; Causes of Death; More! — Coronavirus Update XCIX
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Spartacus Speaks; Australian Head Knocking; MI Bright Spot; Causes of Death; More! — Coronavirus Update XCIX

Last week, there was some good news. This week, it's mostly bad. I AM SPARTACUS I am not the Spartacus, but I am Spartacus. If you have seen the movie,…
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Vaccine “Hesitancy” Is Caused By Hersterics, Tyrants & Midwits
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Vaccine “Hesitancy” Is Caused By Hersterics, Tyrants & Midwits

We're going to suppose, you and I dear reader, for the duration of this post, that the mRNA coronadoom vaccines work, just as hersterics, tyrants, and midwits say. By work…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Errors About The Incarnation IV
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Errors About The Incarnation IV

Previous post. Week 4 refuting arguments claiming Jesus was not the Word Incarnated. Like last, this is a simple week, too. But of interest to see how some controversies fade…
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The Magic Of Science — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
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The Magic Of Science — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

There always comes a time when everything becomes clear. Even in the fog of battle. That thought defined the night of Sept. 14th, when Gavin Newsom retained his governor’s chair…
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First There Was Vaccine Passports, Now They Want Carbon Passports
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First There Was Vaccine Passports, Now They Want Carbon Passports

Experts creating the coronadoom may or may not have designed it as a weapon. They did, however, design it to kill. Maybe it got out accidentally---stupidity is always a likely…
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Nine Miles From Zion — Guest Post by Uncle Mike
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Nine Miles From Zion — Guest Post by Uncle Mike

Uncle Mike provides us a tasty white pill. Zion, OR, is a quintessential Oregon town, pop 15,000, on the east side of the Willamette Valley, hard against the Washalla River.…
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  1. Johnno on Peer-Reviewed Research: Men Find Looking At Nearly Naked Women DistractingJuly 22, 2025

    Why couldn't I have been involved as a participant in this study? I would enjoy the opportunity to be paid…

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    hahahahahahhahahahahah This shit is too much.

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    - Fomenko's claim that (ao) ancient astronomical publications and unexplainable parallels in history accounts show that our chronology upto AD…

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    Reminds me of the study that found college women were more likely to have hook up sex after drinking alcohol

  5. Peer-Reviewed Research: Men Find Looking At Nearly Naked Women Distracting – William M. Briggs on Peer-reviewed research: Men find looking at nearly naked women distractingJuly 22, 2025

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