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The True History Of College Sports Under Title IX
Here is the true history of college sports under the Federal Title IX mandate. Some events have not yet come to pass. In 1972, the Most Beneficent Government of the…
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EVERYTHING YOU BELIEVE IS WRONG Pre-published in December 2021, but officially in January 2022. Buy it. Errata page: submit typos and mistakes here, thank you. Free first chapter is here.…
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Scientism Of The First Kind: Science Shows Laptops Distract Students
https://twitter.com/mattstat/status/722028191582445568 Here's the headline. (It's NPR, so don't expect much.) "Attention Students: Put Your Laptops Away". And here's the relevant sad bit: For one thing, research shows that laptops and…
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Was The Attempted Turkish Coup A False Flag Or Otherwise Allowed To Happen? Guest Post by Ianto Watt
Editor's note: Whether the coup was a false flag, or whether Erdogan knew it was going to occur but let it happen, or whether he's not letting the crisis go…
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This Week In Doom — WMBriggs Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIveP1SEZjs Dall'Abaco concerto The week of the worst that was, in aural form, featuring the music of Giuseppe Torelli and Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco. Torelli trumpet concerto Because they can, and…
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Here Comes The Gene-Editing Research In Human Embryos
The mechanistic view of man and the universe has consequences, the most important of which is that man is seen as a machine. Well, he must be if everything is…
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Science Shows How Not To Get Killed By A Cow
"Murderous cattle are an understudied phenomenon, say veterinarian Angharad Fraser-Williams and other researchers at the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom." You bet they're understudied. When's the last time…
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The Crybaby Fallacy (Which Atheists Often Use)
Many atheists are notorious for arguing from desire. (Be ever careful of the So's-Yer-Old-Man Fallacy.) God doesn't exist, they say or imply, because He's a big meanie, because His demands…
