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Did The Pope Really Say Health Is A “Right”?
March 30, 2026
All Models Only Say What They Are Told To Say, And AI Is A Model
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It’s The End Of The World Again
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The Great Effeminization of the Academy
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The Only Metric That Matters: Or, Pinker’s Folly
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Lancet Discovers Public Health Is Politics
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Class 82: Be More Uncertain (About Models)
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On Not Reading
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The Great Smoothing: Another Reason Not To Fear (or trust) AI
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A Synchronicity Or Coincidence? What Is Behind Curious Events?
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Class 81: The Second Biggest Error In Time Series
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The Paper Test Shows Why AGI Is Not Possible: And Why The Brain Is Different In Kind
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Researcher Imagines Weather With No Human Influence: Concludes Climate Change Hurts Incomes
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Faith Deposited: Why Godless Science Fails
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Class 80: Granger Causality; Per Se & Accidental Time Series; Stationarity
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Scientists Seeking To Escape Criticism Run To The Warmth & Comfort Of Bluesky
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The Loss of Ephemera — Guest Post by The Blonde Bombshell
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Class 79: Time Series Example
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The Importance Of Not Making Decisions
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Did The Pope Really Say Health Is A “Right”?

Posted by By Briggs March 30, 2026
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All Models Only Say What They Are Told To Say, And AI Is A Model

Posted by By Briggs March 26, 2026
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Probability Doesn’t Exist: Nothing Has A Probability
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Probability Doesn’t Exist: Nothing Has A Probability

I hope you'll forgive this minor repetition, my friends. But since the world has not yet converted to the truth, shouted by de Finetti and handful of others, that probability…
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Dickman Cries “Rape!”: On The Bizarre New Rape-Pregnancy Paper
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Dickman Cries “Rape!”: On The Bizarre New Rape-Pregnancy Paper

You and I, dear reader, have looked at a lot of bad science over the years. Some science was bad because of the stank of woke, some because of fractured…
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The Border Happening & The Weakness Of The Regime
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The Border Happening & The Weakness Of The Regime

Simple math: 5,000 x 365 = 1,825,000. Check me. Is it right? That 5,000 is the number of "migrants" the Regime Senate would allow in each day---each and every day…
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The Role of Dusty-Ice-Sheet Albedo in Ice-Age Temperature Regulation — Guest Post by Jackie Edwards
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The Role of Dusty-Ice-Sheet Albedo in Ice-Age Temperature Regulation — Guest Post by Jackie Edwards

Yesterday we learned how poor climate models were because of their over-emphasis on man's influence. Today we have a guest post on one alternate cause. See what you think. The…
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Great News! The Climate Is Much Better Than Predicted. Now We Can Calm Down!
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Great News! The Climate Is Much Better Than Predicted. Now We Can Calm Down!

I am, and you will be, too, absolutely delighted by a new paper by Roy Spencer: "Global Warming: Observations vs. Climate Models". This is a paper that will be celebrated…
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Combinatorial Explosion: Theory Is Worse Than You Thought
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Combinatorial Explosion: Theory Is Worse Than You Thought

A lot of kids have alphabet blocks. Twenty six wooden squares with the letters of the alphabet on them. One way to arrange them is just like in the song,…
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How Not To Think Like A Bayesian Rationalist
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How Not To Think Like A Bayesian Rationalist

Lisping Rationalists When I read people like Eliezer Yudkowsky and Scott Alexander it becomes clear to me how the French could have built a Temple of Reason during The Terror.…
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What Punishment Will We Get For This?
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What Punishment Will We Get For This?

One of the strangest incidents recounted in the Bible, at least to my modern ears, is when Aaron, brother of Moses, made for the stubborn Israelites a new god to…
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    Do read up on Pope Benedict XVI and more, and Pope John Paul II .... do a search for "Catholic…

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    There have been many bad popes, but also many wonderful ones. Pope Saint John Paul II was, well, saintly. His…

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    If our rights derive from God, and if the pope is God's primary interlocutor (Pontifax Maximus) can we sue the…

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