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What Science Says About Making Medication Mandatory
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What Science Says About Making Medication Mandatory

Posted by By Briggs January 26, 2026
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What A Winter

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Diversity Is Not Always Desirable: Part II

Diversity Is Not Always Desirable Parts I, II, III, IV Suppose we are not interested in "the best" or the "is qualified" premises and merely seek to stock our organization…
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Diversity Is Not Always Desirable: Part I

I will continue to be away from the computer until (I think) this Thursday. So here is a corrected and amplified classic series, which originally ran in December 2010. Diversity…
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Squirrel Arrested For Stealing Nuts: Nonhuman Rights Entail Nonhuman Responsibilities

Wesley Smith writes at the Weekly Standard: [T]he annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science hosted a panel supporting the Declaration of Rights for Cetaceans, which…
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Are The Masters Winners Getting Younger And Better? Predictions Update

Update As of this writing, the 2012 Masters is halfway through, so it's a good time to re-examine the predictions made last April for this year's tournament. Scores have been…
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Good Friday: Rally For Reason With St Anselm’s Ontological Argument

It's Good Friday, an excellent time to prove---I use this word in its logical sense---that many people come to religion through rational argument. We earlier this week examined the so-called…
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Do Conservatives Distrust Science More Than Liberals?

Science versus Scientism That, anyway, is the latest question making the rounds in the science wars. The simplistic answer, the one de rigueur on campuses and newsrooms, is "Yes." Why,…
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The Reason Rally Fizzles

An army; well, a brigade; or anyway at least a couple of battalions of Brights milled around the mall in Washington DC on March 24---various estimates gave "highs are around…
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The Humble Tautology And Probability

Start with the premises P1 = "All men are mortal" and P2 = "Socrates is a man" and from them we want to know the status of the conclusion C…
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  1. McChuck on What Science Says About Making Medication MandatoryJanuary 26, 2026

    Media and government (but I repeat myself) talking heads are not categorically different from Zardoz.

  2. Cookie on What A WinterJanuary 23, 2026

    Energy bills will be up with this cold. I wonder what inflation will look like when winter is done? At…

  3. Hagfish Bagpipe on What A WinterJanuary 22, 2026

    Briggs, that sounds just dandy. You have important and challenging work to do. Work that rewards creative solutions and physical…

  4. Briggs on What A WinterJanuary 21, 2026

    McChuck, That lieutenant must be at least a congressman by now.

  5. McChuck on What A WinterJanuary 21, 2026

    I remember the multiple blizzards of the 1970's. I had to be outside on guard patrol all night in -40…

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