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We Passed Peak “Climate Change” (um) Research
August 17, 2026
Sweet Wee Ps Say Sugar Makes You Lose Your Mind
August 13, 2026
AI Is Neither Artificial Nor Intelligent
August 12, 2026
You Can’t Con An Honest Man & The Case of Jason Arday
August 10, 2026
Academics: Achieve Sustainability by Easing Population to 4 Billion by 2200
August 6, 2026
The Impossibility of Proposition Nations
August 5, 2026
Ugly Women Rulers Condemn Lookism
August 3, 2026
The Wee P Boogie: The Song That’s Sweeping the Nation!
July 30, 2026
Wolfgang Smith For Everyone
July 28, 2026
Death By Organ Donation
July 27, 2026
$7.11 at 7:11 PM on 7/11 at 7/11: What Are The Chances?
July 23, 2026
Caution Against The Precautionary Principle: Interview with Jaap Hanekamp
July 22, 2026
Believing In God Makes You Crave Potato Chips, Say Academics
July 20, 2026
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
July 9, 2026
My Horrible Interaction With AI
July 8, 2026
SOON
July 7, 2026
The Court’s Slow Theft Of The Constitution — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
July 6, 2026
Happy Birthday to US
July 2, 2026
Never Use Or Trust P-values (Pagan-Values)
July 1, 2026
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We Passed Peak “Climate Change” (um) Research

Posted by By Briggs August 17, 2026
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Sweet Wee Ps Say Sugar Makes You Lose Your Mind

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It’s Time For A New (Old) Kind Of University: Update

Consider these news items: "At Western Michigan University, it is considered harassment to hold a 'condescending sex-based attitude.'...Tufts University in Boston proscribes the holding of 'sexist attitudes,'... At Northeastern University,…
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Germany To Ban Sex With Animals

I lifted today's title from an article in Sydney's The Telegraph. I don't know about you, but my jaw flung open as if on a spring after comprehending the tense…
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Job Hunting Guanxi Style—Guest Post by William J. Briggs

The very employable W.J. Briggs, number one son of Yours Truly, lives and blogs in Brooklyn. Looking for work is a bit daunting these days. Job websites abound, but every…
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Legal Insurrection: Wishcasting the 2012 Presidential Election

Today's post is over at Legal Insurrection, a classy site run by Cornell Law guy Bill Jacobson. I have a preliminary analysis of wishcasting the election. Once it's finished, I'll…
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Posted inCulture

Government Finds Clever New Way To Spend Your Money: NIH’s RePAIR

Heard of the Office of Research Integrity? It's one branch of the hydra-headed Department of Health and Human Services. HHS is the infamous agency that under Obamacare would mandate Muslim…
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Church Of England Rejects Female Bishops: Can Truth Be Had By Vote?

The Church of England put to a vote whether to include females as bishops last week. Females are already ordained in that organization (and by some reports will soon comprise…
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Posted inCulture

What Marco Rubio Should Have Said: Advice To Conservatives

https://twitter.com/mattstat/status/270887160058626048 You've already heard the story. A GQ---GQ still exists?---reporter sandbagged Marco Rubio. Immediately the honorable gentleman from Florida thought his interview over, the journalist, Columbo-like, turned and asked, "Just…
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Open Forum Friday. Black Friday?

For three reasons I thought we'd try and "open forum" post: (1) One of our long-time readers and commenters suggested it; (2) today is an unofficial national "holyday" and many…
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  1. Cary Cotterman on We Passed Peak “Climate Change” (um) ResearchAugust 17, 2026

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

  2. Tars Tarkas on We Passed Peak “Climate Change” (um) ResearchAugust 17, 2026

    "The graph is not normalized by number of scientists. In 1960, there were far fewer scientists than there are now.…

  3. Brian (bulaoren) on We Passed Peak “Climate Change” (um) ResearchAugust 17, 2026

    This is probably wishful thinking but...might it be the academic climate that has changed?.....nah

  4. _Jim on You Can’t Con An Honest Man & The Case of Jason ArdayAugust 14, 2026

    And, just like that, he (apparently) self-exterminates. Found unresponsive and declared deceased where they found him today, Friday the 14th…

  5. patrivk healy on Ugly Women Rulers Condemn LookismAugust 14, 2026

    C-Marie. Look around you. Virtually all the ugly woman who have corrupted the western world in the last 50 years…

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