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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
Class 78: The Attempt To Turn Correlation Lead Into Causation Gold In Time Series
February 12, 2026
Desperate Need For Equality: AP Exam Performance
February 11, 2026
Some Sanity: Experts Sued For Creating Gender Delusions
February 10, 2026
Why The Recent Claims Of AGI Fail: Plus, A New Test For AGI
February 9, 2026
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The Only Metric That Matters: Or, Pinker’s Folly

Posted by By Briggs March 17, 2026
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Lancet Discovers Public Health Is Politics

Posted by By Briggs March 16, 2026
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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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Rare Week Of Good News, And Some Bad — Coronavirus Update XCIV
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Rare Week Of Good News, And Some Bad — Coronavirus Update XCIV

JOY IN THE STREETS If not joy, then at least some broad grins. This is the first week, in the nearly 100 we have been tracking, in which we have…
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On The Confirmation Bias Of  Experts & Doctors
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On The Confirmation Bias Of Experts & Doctors

There is a thing in bad science, and indeed in all life, called confirmation bias. I've said many times that all scientists know and believe in the concept, just as…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Errors About The Incarnation III
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Errors About The Incarnation III

Previous post. Week 3 refuting arguments claiming Jesus was not the Word Incarnated. This is a simple week. THE ERROR OF VALENTINE ABOUT THE INCARNATION 1 The opinions of Valentine,…
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The Pope, Ecumenical Patriarch & Archbishop of Canterbury Walk Into A Bar
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The Pope, Ecumenical Patriarch & Archbishop of Canterbury Walk Into A Bar

Guy called the Pope says, "I'll have a Holy Water, with a twist." Archbishop of Canterbury says "In the spirit of ecumenism, I'll have the same." Ecumenical Patriarch says, "Those…
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Dystopian Threats And The Globalisation Of Faiths– Guest Post by Jaap Hanekamp

Sanna (24) wants to be sterilised for the climate - Scary to have children. This is the translated title of a Norwegian article posted on the website of the NRK,…
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The Problem With Ethical Egoism — Guest Post by The Cranky Professor
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The Problem With Ethical Egoism — Guest Post by The Cranky Professor

Ethical egoism is the position that says that one ought to value oneself above others and that one ought to always act with the aim of benefiting oneself. Ethical egoism…
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Vexxine Side Effects; Vexxine Mandates; Political Panics; More! — Coronavirus Update XCIII
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Vexxine Side Effects; Vexxine Mandates; Political Panics; More! — Coronavirus Update XCIII

This is a long post, dear reader. There is much that is happening at once, and no avoiding discussing each thing. Please scan at least each section. https://twitter.com/FamedCelebrity/status/1437399042363887625 Update! A…
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  1. John M on The Only Metric That Matters: Or, Pinker’s FollyMarch 17, 2026

    "How many souls make it to Heaven" is an attribute that can't be expressed with variable data.

  2. Brian (bulaoren) on The Only Metric That Matters: Or, Pinker’s FollyMarch 17, 2026

    As it happens, Stephen Pinker and I were at the same university, around the same time. No, I don't recall…

  3. bob sykes on The Only Metric That Matters: Or, Pinker’s FollyMarch 17, 2026

    Humanism might be a better guide, if you are a high-IQ Greek philospher like Aristotle, or even Nietzsche. But for…

  4. Uncle Mike on The Only Metric That Matters: Or, Pinker’s FollyMarch 17, 2026

    "...the only metric that matters is how many souls make it to Heaven..." This metric is tough to measure. There's…

  5. JH on The Only Metric That Matters: Or, Pinker’s FollyMarch 17, 2026

    What Pinker missed was that if a religion is true, then living by its tenets is best. What does it…

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