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Is Moral Certainty Possible?
August 19, 2026
We Passed Peak “Climate Change” (um) Research
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Sweet Wee Ps Say Sugar Makes You Lose Your Mind
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AI Is Neither Artificial Nor Intelligent
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You Can’t Con An Honest Man & The Case of Jason Arday
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Academics: Achieve Sustainability by Easing Population to 4 Billion by 2200
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The Impossibility of Proposition Nations
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The Wee P Boogie: The Song That’s Sweeping the Nation!
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Wolfgang Smith For Everyone
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Death By Organ Donation
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$7.11 at 7:11 PM on 7/11 at 7/11: What Are The Chances?
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Caution Against The Precautionary Principle: Interview with Jaap Hanekamp
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Believing In God Makes You Crave Potato Chips, Say Academics
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Hume’s Guillotine, Euclid’s Catapult: Induction, Axioms, and Objective Ethics
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University of California Prof Tries To Save System From DIEing
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The Equality Paradox
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My Horrible Interaction With AI
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SOON
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The Court’s Slow Theft Of The Constitution — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
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Happy Birthday to US
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Is Moral Certainty Possible?

Posted by By Briggs August 19, 2026
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We Passed Peak “Climate Change” (um) Research

Posted by By Briggs August 17, 2026
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Class 31: How Views Diverge With New Evidence
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Class 31: How Views Diverge With New Evidence

Is Trump a Russian Asset? (This question accounts for the change in banner image this week.) What happens to belief when people learn new evidence about this curious proposition? Theory…
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Ridley Claims Materialists, Atheists, & Secular Humanists Don’t Preach
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Ridley Claims Materialists, Atheists, & Secular Humanists Don’t Preach

Keeping with our Friday Frolic them, this classic post ran originally on 24 November 2015, and it was brought to mind because I have a book review coming out soon…
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What Health Insurance Should Be, But Isn’t
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What Health Insurance Should Be, But Isn’t

Now that a Health Insurance guy has been whacked, it's time to review. Here is an expanded version of a thread I did on Twitter---which is all a repeat of…
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England Voted To Have Doctors Kill Their Patients
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England Voted To Have Doctors Kill Their Patients

The MPs in the UK passed a bill that will allow doctors to kill their patients. Maybe this is their solution to the rampant immoral immigration they can't make themselves…
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Emergence Is Substance; Entanglement Is Substance: Science Is Healing
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Emergence Is Substance; Entanglement Is Substance: Science Is Healing

There is an idea taking shape, vague but gaining strength, that good things are coming to Science. Science, I say, not academia. Only a cleansing fire will save academia. One…
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The Advent Of Lousy Music
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The Advent Of Lousy Music

In anticipation that many will be out, or in but out, today, no Class. Instead a topical post which ran originally on 6 December 2017. It will keep on running…
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Russia’s New Paradigm — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
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Russia’s New Paradigm — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

When Thomas Kuhn released his famous book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in 1962, it riled a lot of people. Mostly those who were wedded to the old way of…
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Facing The Inevitable — Guest Post by Uncle Mike
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Facing The Inevitable — Guest Post by Uncle Mike

Greetings Doomsters. I am graciously grateful to Brother Briggs for allowing me this gesture to you and for you in this histrionically historical moment during Advent -- quite possibly the…
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    Google Scholar's result counts are extremely broad estimates and highly opaque. It's not a reliable or reproducible method assessing topical…

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    I'm not worried about "climate change" or "covid". I'm worried about what BS the money-hungry and power-hungry, and the useful…

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