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Script Leaked From New 007 Movie, Leap Into The Dark
Apparently this is what they call a treatment, or a partial script, and only goes to the end of Act I. I am sworn to keep secret how I came…
Posted inPhilosophy SAMT
Summary Against Modern Thought: The Stars Don’t Make Our Choices
Previous post. There is no point to reading your horoscope. THAT THE MOTION OF A CELESTIAL BODY IS NOT THE CAUSE OF OUR ACTS OF CHOICE BY THE POWER OF…
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The Week In Doom — Tranny Madness is Big Business Edition
As regular readers know, it's impossible to keep up with all the Doom in one week. Use the contact form to send me things you think I might miss. Or…
Posted inClass Statistics
Why The Bootstrap Seems To Work—And Why It Produces Over-Certainty
Let's drag the statistician's hoary threadbare ball-filled bag out of the cupboard to make a point. In it are 3 white balls and 2 black. Using the statistical syllogism, we…
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Your Most Important Choice: Part III — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
Read Part II Let's set the context for the word according to Islam. Christianity, at the time of Mohammed, had eclipsed Judaism (of any form) as well as the religion(s)…
Posted inStatistics
Paper Says Some Psychiatric Diagnoses “Scientifically Meaningless”
The title is an understatement: Heterogeneity in psychiatric diagnostic classification. This is a paper in Psychiatry Research by Kate Allsopp, John Read, Rhiannon Corcoran, and Peter Kinderman. Abstract (to which…
Posted inPhilosophy
The Myth Of Physicalism — Guest Post by The Cranky Professor
Physicalism is an extreme form of materialism that says that only physical entities exist. This differs from more moderate forms of materialism like property dualism or emergentism where immaterial entities…
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Of Course “Being” A Homosexual Is A Sin
Being a homosexual, it it means anything, means embracing a certain style of behavior, dress, mindset and mannerisms. Most dress and mannerisms are not sins, but some mindsets and many…
