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What To Do About Black Crime?
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What To Do About Black Crime?

Note: This blog is mirrored at Substack for those who prefer that format. Here is a video from late last week, a common kind, a kind which you have seen…
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Free First Chapter in Everything You Believe Is Wrong, The Book All Woke Fear
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Free First Chapter in Everything You Believe Is Wrong, The Book All Woke Fear

Who is this book for? Before I answer that excellent question, let me first show why the book is necessary, if you have a moment. Watch this thirty second clip.…
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Science: Force Kids To Mask To Defeat Systemic Racism
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Science: Force Kids To Mask To Defeat Systemic Racism

Listen to the podcast on Bitchute or Gab. Let's think about evidence, and its nature using a modern peer-reviewed paper as our example. The paper is "Lifting Universal Masking in…
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How People Think Their False Ideas Are True
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How People Think Their False Ideas Are True

This is the complete Appendix from Everything You Believe Is Wrong. Brace Yourself The Two Ways Arguments Go Wrong At this point, I am hoping the reader does a little…
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In Which We Answer The Pressing Question: Is Science Growing Stupider?
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In Which We Answer The Pressing Question: Is Science Growing Stupider?

I was asked this question the other day: "Is science becoming stupider?" I was forced to answer this way: "Boy, howdy! Science will be lucky to reach stupid the end…
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Celebrity Scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson Speaks — Excerpt From Everything You Believe Is Wrong
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Celebrity Scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson Speaks — Excerpt From Everything You Believe Is Wrong

This excerpt comes in Chapter 20, Science. First comes the Science Is Self-Correcting Fallacy, followed by the My Grant Was Funded Therefore My Theory Is True Fallacy, which is a…
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More On How Peer Review Generates And Maintains Consensuses
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More On How Peer Review Generates And Maintains Consensuses

We spoke the other day of the enervating effects of peer review. Today we examine a peer-reviewed paper whose very purpose is to show that peer review exists and is…
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The Great Global Warming—A.K.A. “Climate Change”—A.K.A. “Climate Emergency”—Post!
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The Great Global Warming—A.K.A. “Climate Change”—A.K.A. “Climate Emergency”—Post!

This is mainly a catch up post for new readers who won't recall the old days. Listen to the podcast at YouTube, BitChute, or Gab. I'm late on this! STATE…
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