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“The Church Believes In Science.” And That Global Warming Is Akin To Slavery?

Der Spiegel conducted an interview with the President of the Pontifical Science Academy Bischop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo. It's worth going over a few of the questions (I used Google translate).…

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Podcast: Peer Review, Bob & Ray Do Statistics, Academic Calls For Killing Of (Post-Birth) Babies

[podcast]https://www.wmbriggs.com/audio/wmbriggs_com_12dec2014_0006.mp3[/podcast] Show Notes Wired's PubPeer article. PubPeer.com itself. PubPeer's discussion of "Macroscopic Observability of Spinorial Sign Changes under 2π Rotations". Bob and Ray can be found at, inter alia, the…

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Update On Gun Crime: Downward Bound. Vote Accordingly

Elections are nearing and some of our friends are worried about guns. Measures are on ballots, votes are urged; that sort of thing. Nerves are raw, tempers are flared. Now…

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The Preponderance Of Evidence Criterion Is Absurd

Our beneficent government, through its Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights "sent a letter to colleges nationwide on April 4, 2011, mandating policy changes in the way schools handle…

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Humanae Vitae & The Sexual Revolution: Theories And Predictions

This corrected post originally ran 14 May 2014. But given rumblings in the Church, that it is Lent, and the importance of the message to all of us, it is…

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The Coming Cancer Panic

Maybe it won't be cancer. Maybe it will be irumodic syndrome or Clarke's disease. Or maybe it will be something else. But probably it will be cancer. If I had…

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Statistics Good, Bad & Ugly

In an attempt to catch up on my 300-some emails (yes, the total has grown considerably; probably because of recent publicity), here are some articles sent in by readers that…

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Stephen Hawking Thinks Too Much Of Us; More

Autumn of the Modern Ages What!? You haven't headed over to Mike Flynn's place and read his series The Autumn of the Modern Ages? Sometimes I don't understand you people…

JDinPA on The Sad End Of RadioJuly 4, 2025
CCReed: That’s a disturbing take on the late Z-Man in at least two senses: 1) If true, Z-Man was perpetrating…
CCReed on The Sad End Of RadioJuly 3, 2025
A somewhat different take on the late Z-Man: https://bestservedcole.substack.com/p/the-z-man-story
CorkyAgain on The Sad End Of RadioJuly 3, 2025
I think I stopped listening to radio around the time when Paul Harvey was no longer there to tell us…
The True Nolan on The Sad End Of RadioJuly 3, 2025
@Alex: "The other abomination on the am dial is black talk radio. In Chicongo. Pure raciacist hatred of all things…
Cary Cotterman on The Sad End Of RadioJuly 3, 2025
I've got a beautifully restored 1936 RCA Victor super-heterodyne "Magic-Eye" console radio with standard broadcast (AM), short-wave, and medium-wave bands,…