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Capital Punishment Deters Crime More Than The Death Penalty
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How Experts Use “Calamities” to Find Official Victims & Gain Power
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Richard Dawkins, The Big Muscles Fallacy & AI Pachinko
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Capital Punishment Deters Crime More Than The Death Penalty

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How Experts Use “Calamities” to Find Official Victims & Gain Power

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Summary Against Modern Thought: Understanding The Trinity III
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Understanding The Trinity III

Previous post. Recall that this is a continuation of Chapter 11; it wouldn't hurt to review last week, since we cut off midstream. This is some thick going, too. HOW…
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Talk About Pseudo-Religious Faith In Models Delayed — Blog Update
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Talk About Pseudo-Religious Faith In Models Delayed — Blog Update

WARNING! The summit mentioned next has been shifted to one week from Friday (yesterday). Gist: the host tried to cancel it after it started on Friday. TRUTH OVER FEAR SUMMIT…
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Official Diet Recommendations & Obesity — Guest Post by Robert Yoho
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Official Diet Recommendations & Obesity — Guest Post by Robert Yoho

This is excerpted from Hormone Secrets by Robert Yoho, MD, pending publication. This chapter is the background for the next one about the use of thyroid and other medications to…
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The Burden Of Proof On Climate Scientists—And Those Wishing For Its “Solutions”
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The Burden Of Proof On Climate Scientists—And Those Wishing For Its “Solutions”

UNCERTAINTY REQUIREMENTS If you say a calamity will befall me, and ask me to pay to protect against it, the burden is on you to (a) prove the calamity is…
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How Will The Killing Begin?
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How Will The Killing Begin?

What follows is a big suppose. Just that: a suppose. So don't get too worked up. Suppose in the once United States, the left spirals out of control, as it…
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Paper Says Social Distancing Doesn’t Work; Lockdowns Don’t Work; Deaths At Yearly Low; More — Coronavirus Update LXIII
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Paper Says Social Distancing Doesn’t Work; Lockdowns Don’t Work; Deaths At Yearly Low; More — Coronavirus Update LXIII

Look for new plots in the update below. A RARE SIGHTING I will join this robust list of malcontents, lunatics, deniers, outcasts and iconoclasts in my speech, "Fools! I will…
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Gambler’s Fallacy Not As Crazy As Mathematician’s Fallacy
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Gambler’s Fallacy Not As Crazy As Mathematician’s Fallacy

A new walks-into-a-bar joke begins (thanks to reader Kip Hansen for the tip): A mathematician, a philosopher and a gambler walk into a bar. As the barman pulls each of…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Understanding The Trinity II
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Understanding The Trinity II

Previous post. Chapter 11 is too much to do in one go. I'm splitting it up in two parts. HOW GENERATION IS TO BE UNDERSTOOD IN DIVINITY, AND WHAT IS…
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