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Lewontin’s Other Fallacy: Race & Intelligence
September 1, 2026
Fertility Fears Overblown: Tiny Shift in Childless Rate Saves The Species
August 27, 2026
A New Kind Of University: Your Comments Wanted
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Bad Black Health Blamed On Slavery
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Is Moral Certainty Possible?
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Sweet Wee Ps Say Sugar Makes You Lose Your Mind
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AI Is Neither Artificial Nor Intelligent
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The Impossibility of Proposition Nations
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The Wee P Boogie: The Song That’s Sweeping the Nation!
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Wolfgang Smith For Everyone
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Death By Organ Donation
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Believing In God Makes You Crave Potato Chips, Say Academics
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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
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Lewontin’s Other Fallacy: Race & Intelligence

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Fertility Fears Overblown: Tiny Shift in Childless Rate Saves The Species

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Posted inCulture

CliffsNotes for CliffsNotes: Now With Even Less Reading!

If there's one thing that's wrong with this country, it's that our poor, overworked, not-nearly-pampered enough children have too much reading to do. Why, there's Twitter ("#lindsaylohan Hate when i…
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Citizen Zings Deepak Chopra With Bolt Of Logic

From regular reader Bruce Foutch comes this video of a citizen asking "quantum healing" guru Deepak Chopra and some "Bishop" a simple question. The transcript reads: Emcee: I want to…
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Posted inStatistics

Two Open Letters To Congress On Climate Change, And A New Third

There are two open letters shot off to Congress these last days, one from "alarmist" scientists and the other from "denialist" scientists1. Those pejoratives were not picked by me, but…
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In Their Own Words: Obama On Health, Holder On Race

Pay for your own damn health care In an interview with Bill O'Reilly, President O'bama said What I hear you saying is that the notion that us saying to people…
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Posted inCulture

Music Not So Super At Super Bowl: Faked Cheering?

Oh, say, can you see, by the field's klieg lights, what so proudly we hailed? And proudly hailed to the world over in full Dolby surround-sound HD. What an embarrassment!…
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Posted inStatistics

A Correction: I’ve Been Misquoted

On Thursday, 3 February of this year I was called by Saginaw News reporter Deborah Brown, who asked me, among other things, about claims made by folks like Al Gore…
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Posted inFun Statistics

Super Bowl Indicator Busted: A Sports/Markets Indicator for the Next Century—Guest Post by Doug Magowan

Doug Magowan spends his days poring over financial numbers. Today he offers us, tongue firmly in cheek, a new way to get rich quick. All you have to do is…
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Planet Earth Al Gore Explains ‘Snowmageddon’: Fox News Story

I was quoted by Gene Koprowski in his Fox News story "Planet Earth Al Gore Explains 'Snowmageddon'". (This accounted for the several hundred Google and other search engine redirects to…
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  1. shawn marshall on Lewontin’s Other Fallacy: Race & IntelligenceSeptember 1, 2026

    Let me say something stupid cuz I'm not vey bright - to me it is an indication of the Existence…

  2. Carlos Julio Casanova Guerra on Lewontin’s Other Fallacy: Race & IntelligenceSeptember 1, 2026

    I was hoping you wrote about race, because I wanted to hand you a quote, since long ago, but I…

  3. McChuck on Lewontin’s Other Fallacy: Race & IntelligenceSeptember 1, 2026

    DIE, put this way, sounds an awful lot like Lysenkoism.

  4. John Pate on Lewontin’s Other Fallacy: Race & IntelligenceSeptember 1, 2026

    As I'm fond of pointing out, a 100% of the reason you're a man and not a monkey is genetics.…

  5. John Pate on A New Kind Of University: Your Comments WantedAugust 30, 2026

    Not convinced you're encroaching on the functions of the universities with this initiative. Seems to me the primary functions of…

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