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It’s The End Of The World Again
March 24, 2026
Belgian Judge Wants To Arrest Little Nate Cofnast Because Cofnast Says Smart People Are Smarter Than Dumb People
March 23, 2026
Class 83: Why Were Paul Ehrlich’s Predictions So Good (and so Bad)?
March 19, 2026
The Great Effeminization of the Academy
March 18, 2026
The Only Metric That Matters: Or, Pinker’s Folly
March 17, 2026
Lancet Discovers Public Health Is Politics
March 16, 2026
Class 82: Be More Uncertain (About Models)
March 12, 2026
On Not Reading
March 11, 2026
The Great Smoothing: Another Reason Not To Fear (or trust) AI
March 10, 2026
A Synchronicity Or Coincidence? What Is Behind Curious Events?
March 9, 2026
Class 81: The Second Biggest Error In Time Series
March 5, 2026
The Paper Test Shows Why AGI Is Not Possible: And Why The Brain Is Different In Kind
March 4, 2026
Researcher Imagines Weather With No Human Influence: Concludes Climate Change Hurts Incomes
March 3, 2026
Faith Deposited: Why Godless Science Fails
March 2, 2026
Class 80: Granger Causality; Per Se & Accidental Time Series; Stationarity
February 26, 2026
Scientists Seeking To Escape Criticism Run To The Warmth & Comfort Of Bluesky
February 24, 2026
The Loss of Ephemera — Guest Post by The Blonde Bombshell
February 23, 2026
Class 79: Time Series Example
February 19, 2026
The Importance Of Not Making Decisions
February 18, 2026
Don’t Take The ‘Long-Covid’ Alzheimer’s Study Seriously
February 17, 2026
AI Is Driving Many Crazy: Our Latest Panic
February 16, 2026
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It’s The End Of The World Again

Posted by By Briggs March 24, 2026
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Belgian Judge Wants To Arrest Little Nate Cofnast Because Cofnast Says Smart People Are Smarter Than Dumb People

Posted by By Briggs March 23, 2026
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Covid & The Cathedral — Guest Post by John Q Public
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Covid & The Cathedral — Guest Post by John Q Public

As the reader may know from my last guest appearance, I am entirely on the side of the COVID skeptics. I have never believed any aspect of the response to…
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The Massively Stupid Idea Of Weekly Testing Of The Unvaxxed — Coronadoom Update CXIII
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The Massively Stupid Idea Of Weekly Testing Of The Unvaxxed — Coronadoom Update CXIII

Well, what more can we say that we haven't, and dozens of times? Although there is, here and there, some hope the panic is waning, female Safety Firsters, effeminates and…
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How Did We Do On Our 2021 Predictions?
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How Did We Do On Our 2021 Predictions?

How'd we do? Put it this way: none of us would have won any awards. Here is the list so you can follow along (perhaps open in a new window).…
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Register Your Predictions for 2022!
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Register Your Predictions for 2022!

My Dear Friends, and, yes, Enemies, Happy New Year. As has been our tradition these many years, it's time to register our predictions for the coming year. We look at…
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Researchers Who Built Model To Say Vex Saved A Million Lives Announce Vex Saved A Million Lives
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Researchers Who Built Model To Say Vex Saved A Million Lives Announce Vex Saved A Million Lives

This is a slow day, with most off the internet, as is right and proper. So I will leave us with this repetition: All models, good or bad, inexpert or…
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Propagandists Boast Of Finagling Wikipedia: Here’s How To Have Wikipedia Revenge
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Propagandists Boast Of Finagling Wikipedia: Here’s How To Have Wikipedia Revenge

It is good to take pride in your work. It is good, too, to show enthusiasm. And when a job has been completed in an exemplary fashion, it is sometimes…
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The Great Typo Hunt: My Enemies Insert Errors Into Everything You Believe Is Wrong
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The Great Typo Hunt: My Enemies Insert Errors Into Everything You Believe Is Wrong

From Anon: I'm trying to read your book, "Everything You Believe is Wrong", but it's tough going. You need an editor! Case in point, in the section "Democracy is Discord"…
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We’d Never Be Where We Are Except For Technology — Coronadoom Update CXII
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We’d Never Be Where We Are Except For Technology — Coronadoom Update CXII

Increased technology is responsible for the coronadoom bug, panic, and "solutions" tyranny. If our level of technology was less, there would have been no bug, there would have been no…
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  1. Cary D Cotterman on It’s The End Of The World AgainMarch 24, 2026

    I have encountered people who believe the lines of water vapor created by hot jet engines passing through cold air…

  2. Cary D Cotterman on It’s The End Of The World AgainMarch 24, 2026

    Nothing in the "Beliefs Scale" about the Sun and Earth just petering out naturally over billions of years, as is…

  3. Brian (bulaoren) on It’s The End Of The World AgainMarch 24, 2026

    Well, at least it isn't cancer!

  4. spetzer86 on It’s The End Of The World AgainMarch 24, 2026

    "Oh Lord, bless this thy hand grenade that it might blow thine enemies into tiny bits by thy mercy"

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    Jordan Petersen has quoted IQ racial differences for years - based upon tests that remove the advantages of social milieu

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