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Science Is Now Politics, Says Nature: Here’s Why They’re Right

Nature magazine definitely announced, daring to be doubted, "Science and politics are inseparable". They followed this up with, "We cannot stand by and let science be undermined", and so endorsed…

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The Power To Kill Without Detection

Suppose you discover a device which allows you to kill those whom you would. The device's "batteries" never run out; it will always work and never disappoint. The device is…

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Why “I Believe Survivors” Is Asinine: Kavanaugh vs. Ford, Realists vs. Fantasists.

We're interested here in why people believe this female Ford's charges against male SCOTUS nominee Kavanaugh. Many progressives say Ford's evidence, even at this late date (I'm editing this on…

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Academics Demand Mandatory Chemical Moral Bioenhancement To Make You More Compliant To Coronadoom Restrictions

The New Mandatory Eugenics: Background We've heard a lot over the past decade from ethicists (so-called) and scientists (don't laugh) who aren't satisfied with human nature, they are not satisfied…

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Video: How To Think About Statistics, Figures, And New Ideas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmMBLTz6Pp8 Hard link to the video. This post ran originally on 28 February 2015. Given the quiet weekend, I postponed our Summa Contra Gentiles until next week. It is a…

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Stream: Global Warming Alarmists Plead: Save the Children By Not Having Them

Today's post is at The Stream: Global Warming Alarmists Plead: Save the Children By Not Having Them. Global warming will, of course, doom us all. That is, if the models…

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There Is No Scientific Method

Title is lifted---swiped, stolen, nicked: a point to emphasize---from an essay in what Father Z rightfully calls Hell's Bible by one James Blachowicz. Turns out old Willy S was right,…

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Crisis: Vatican Burns with Global Warming Enthusiasm (And Temperature Fiddling)

Today's post is at Crisis. The title the editor John Vella wrote is AUs---parsecs, even---above mine. His: "Vatican Burns with Global Warming Enthusiasm". Mine? "The Church Burns To Jump Into…

Rudolph Harrier on The Theory Of Misinformation Argues For Restoring Literacy Tests For VotingOctober 9, 2024
The other day I was at a statistics talk about a proposed method for meta-analysis, specifically for combining p-values in…
hudbwu on The Theory Of Misinformation Argues For Restoring Literacy Tests For VotingOctober 9, 2024
I've been informed that the old-timey literacy tests were meant to disenfrenchise black people by being deliberately near-impossible to pass,…
Dana on The Theory Of Misinformation Argues For Restoring Literacy Tests For VotingOctober 9, 2024
No matter for whom you vote, a politician gets elected.
Milton Hathaway on The Theory Of Misinformation Argues For Restoring Literacy Tests For VotingOctober 9, 2024
We engineers deal often with root cause analysis. It's usually deceptively harder than it initially seems for any given failure…
Cloudbuster on The Theory Of Misinformation Argues For Restoring Literacy Tests For VotingOctober 9, 2024
Paul: "Cloudbuster: check q. 6" Yeah, I thought that one was poorly worded, too. You can interpret it in at…