Jim Franklin hosted this classic essay of the late David Stove’s for many years. But he received a complaint from one of the intellectually Tolerant. As Franklin said on this site, “An […]
The Intellectual Capacity Of Women by David Stove
The Ethics Of Precrime
This is Part II of our discussion of predicting individual crime. See Part I. The moral question is this: should an authority take action against you if an algorithm spits out a […]
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 sexual assault […]
Vatican To Have One-Day “Climate Change” Summit. Why Wasn’t I Invited?
Here’s the word from the America: The National Catholic Review: The Vatican is set to host a major conference on climate change this month that will feature leading researchers on global warming […]
I Made “Climate Denial MVP”!
Gollum (who’s he? see this post on the political witch hunt of scientists) wrote yesterday to announce that a group of us made the “Climate Denial MVP” List. I admit to being […]
A New Possible Solution Of Fermi’s Paradox
What is the probability the following proposition is true? “There are rational beings other than humans in the universe.” Well, given the evidence of angels, who are rational non-human beings, the probability […]
Teaching Comes First. But Only If You Bring In Grants. And Publish
Since it’s teaching time, via Nick B Steves via Bruce Charlton comes this reminiscence of Oxford in the 1970s. In the 70s it was still possible for a distinguished head of a […]
Best Picture Oscar Winner: Model Prediction
For several years I have been predicting (with perfect accuracy) the best picture Oscar. (See this and this for past years.) The “model” pick for this year is Captain Phillips. Update The […]
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