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Ritual Sacrifice Promoted Evolution Of Stratified Societies: A Statistical Fallacy

His Majesty Every human society except one is stratified. The exception is the empire of William I, a small sand island that comes and goes by a remote and isolated…

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Stream: Why Science Is Broken & How To Fix It

Today's post is at The Stream: Why Science Is Broken, and How To Fix It: It comes down to bad politics, bad money, and bad philosophy. Here are snippets. Plus:…

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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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Coincidences Don’t Have Odds, Chances, Or Probabilities

PODCAST BONUS! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nX43bgWUn8 The Podcast has been restored! Sorry for the mix up yesterday. Here's the story cut short. A woman was browsing a used book stall and came across…

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Atheists More Religiously Tolerant Than Christians: It’s Science!

I meant this to go out on Saturday morning, but I pressed the wrong button and it went out late Friday afternoon. Apologies to those who receive this post twice.…

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Masters Predictions & (Some) Statistics — Podcast Bonus

PODCAST BONUS! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNsyJf2MX2w See last Master's year's predictions here. Since not much has changed, I'm doing a lot of copying and pasting. The Podcast bonus is because of the screwed…

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Stream: The Climate Surprise: Why CO2 is Good for the Earth

Today's post is at The Stream: The Climate Surprise: Why CO2 is Good for the Earth. Prostitution will increase because of global warming, a stern warning Mark Steyn passed on…

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WMBriggs.com Podcast, 30 Mar 16 — No Deal In Georgia, New Criterion Climate Conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcQ7Z2OdU_k Download MP3. Subscribe to the podcast feed (paste this into iTunes or elsewhere): https://www.wmbriggs.com/feed/?category=podcasts Use Player.fm to find the podcasts. Live! 10 AM Eastern every Wednesday. Listen to the…

JH on There Is No Solution To Crashing Fertility: Good Times Made Soft MenApril 1, 2026
Promoting greater equality at home can be a solution, in addition to offering incentives to involve grandparents, as Frick suggests…
Uncle Mike on There Is No Solution To Crashing Fertility: Good Times Made Soft MenApril 1, 2026
I feel the same way. Tilting at windmills while the sun sets. Impossible dream, unbeatable foe, marching into hell for…
Cloudbuster on There Is No Solution To Crashing Fertility: Good Times Made Soft MenMarch 31, 2026
"How can you deny women what men have?" One simple word: No.
Cary D Cotterman on There Is No Solution To Crashing Fertility: Good Times Made Soft MenMarch 31, 2026
Given the tsunami surge of Islam into the West, welcomed by its leaders and their useful idiot voters; the takeover…
Steve on There Is No Solution To Crashing Fertility: Good Times Made Soft MenMarch 31, 2026
I think the soft men thing requires a certain kind of softness. Tolerance. Men soft in other ways results in…