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How Experts Use “Calamities” to Find Official Victims & Gain Power
May 6, 2026
Richard Dawkins, The Big Muscles Fallacy & AI Pachinko
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Class 88: The Most Neglected Concept: Skill
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The Red-Blue Button Dilemma & Its Surprising Answer
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UFO Reports About To Blast Off!
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Class 87: Calibration & Conformal Prediction: Examples
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Noticing Differences Between Races Does Not Pay
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What Are The Chances Of All These Scientists Dying, Killed, Or Going Missing?
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Class 86: Calibration & Conformal Prediction: Theory
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How A Miracle Turns Mundane
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Contest Winner Announced!
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Trump’s Last Stand: Mea Culpa, Redux — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
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Class 85: Proper Scores of Model Goodness
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Proof!
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Justice Ketanji Roars
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Iran Has Caught Covid: A Reason For The War
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Class 84: Most Important Measure of Model Goodness
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There Is No Solution To Crashing Fertility: Good Times Made Soft Men
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Did The Pope Really Say Health Is A “Right”?
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All Models Only Say What They Are Told To Say, And AI Is A Model
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It’s The End Of The World Again
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How Experts Use “Calamities” to Find Official Victims & Gain Power

Posted by By Briggs May 6, 2026
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Richard Dawkins, The Big Muscles Fallacy & AI Pachinko

Posted by By Briggs May 4, 2026
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Three New Coronadoom Books
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Three New Coronadoom Books

Three new books on the doom out this past week, one bad, two good. The bad, the very, very bad, outsells the good ten to one. Let's start at the…
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Left Tripping Over Themselves To Smash Trump: Update
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Left Tripping Over Themselves To Smash Trump: Update

We'll return to Summa Contra Gentiles after the election. Some pink horror screeched and howled and tried to take down Trump in his town hall, that was stacked and gaffed…
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Computer Models Aren’t Science — Guest Post by Robert Kurland
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Computer Models Aren’t Science — Guest Post by Robert Kurland

This piece ran originally at The American Catholic, but Kurland graciously allowed us to re-run it here. It is a topic of deep interest for us. INTRODUCTION We keep reading…
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Local & Necessary Truths In Mathematical Proofs — And Probability
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Local & Necessary Truths In Mathematical Proofs — And Probability

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp06oGD4m00 This video requires little math beyond what used to be taught in college. Its speaker is Terry Tao, who some say is the world's best living mathematician. Its (fun---truly)…
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American Psychological Association: Every Institution In America Is Born From The Blood Of White Supremacist Ideology
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American Psychological Association: Every Institution In America Is Born From The Blood Of White Supremacist Ideology

Tell the truth: who would you trust more to treat your young son who was just taught at school that he could be a girl if he wanted to, and…
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Catholics Can Certainly Vote For Joe Biden
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Catholics Can Certainly Vote For Joe Biden

Lot of discussion out in the wilds and thickets of the interwebs about whether Catholics can vote for Joe "Who Am I?" Biden. Many say Catholics cannot vote for Biden,…
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The Price of Panic: How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Pandemic into a Catastrophe — Coronavirus Update XXXV
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The Price of Panic: How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Pandemic into a Catastrophe — Coronavirus Update XXXV

BECOME A SUPER-SPREADER! The book has finally arrived! Spread it far, and Spread it wide; Spread it till it hurts inside. Here's the PR: For the first time in history,…
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Against Papal Encyclicals  — Guest Post by Richard Greenhorn
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Against Papal Encyclicals — Guest Post by Richard Greenhorn

The program with papal encyclicals is the same: Every few years the windows of the Vatican open and a forty-thousand word puff of smoke is exhaled. No one quite knows…
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    It appears that Dawkins does not have a well thought out philosophy of consciousness and so he has psyched himself…

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    Hence we descriptively say in plural... a "calamity of victims." Or a "catastrophe of Expurts." Or an "academy of failures."…

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    When an academic paper has "intersectional," "decolonial," "disabilities," "intersect," "social," "structural," "injustices," and "diverse" in one sentence, you know you've…

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    I decided to accept your challenge, knowing with near certainty that your intuition was correct. I invested 15-20 seconds total…

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