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Reasons Not To Like Prediction Markets
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There Is No Culture Without Inequality: Stove 1
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Is This The Dumbest Science Ever?
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Impose Your Beliefs Before They Impose Theirs
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The Probability Of Being Accused Of The Hate Crime Of Disparate Impact Approaches 1
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Reasons Not To Like Prediction Markets

Posted by By Briggs July 23, 2024
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Class 14: No “UNfair” Dice & 1, 2, 3, Many!

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Why “The Science” Settled On “Carbon”
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Why “The Science” Settled On “Carbon”

The answer to the question Why "The Science" Settled On "Carbon" is easy. The Science settled on "carbon" because it's easy. See? Easy is the answer, as promised. Now that…
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How The Increase In Saints Shows The Decrease In Quality Science
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How The Increase In Saints Shows The Decrease In Quality Science

This post is about Science. It will not seem so until the end. Most know the Catholic Church had, and still has, the position of Advocatus Diaboli, a.k.a. the Devil's…
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The Meta-Fallacy: The Mother Of All Fallacies
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The Meta-Fallacy: The Mother Of All Fallacies

This is an excerpt from Chapter 26 of Everything You Believe Is Wrong. I am very much interested to learn of reader's experience with this fallacy. Please let us know…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: On Bodily Resurrection
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Summary Against Modern Thought: On Bodily Resurrection

Previous post. What comes after "the end". The proofs here are, as should be obvious, almost entirely scripture-based. THAT THROUGH CHRIST THE RESURRECTION OF BODIES IS TO COME 1 Now,…
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Take This Quiz And Learn If Should You Be A Racist!
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Take This Quiz And Learn If Should You Be A Racist!

Should I Be A Racist? Quiz 1. You're walking down West 20th Street, heading toward 10th Avenue. (A trip Yours Truly made on foot hundreds of times. I once worked…
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The Pandemic Is Over, Biden Said. No! We Need It, Experts Said
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The Pandemic Is Over, Biden Said. No! We Need It, Experts Said

It's always fun when Biden is not under strict supervision---super vision; apt, that, in our technological age. Were those earplugs? Anyway, when not in the eye, he usually ends up…
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Why Principal Component Analysis Ain’t All That
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Why Principal Component Analysis Ain’t All That

My enemies managed to change the spelling of Principal in the title. They are everywhere. Principal Component Analysis There is an extremely popular analytic technique called Principal Component Analysis, or…
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The Bizarre, And Really Quite Hilarious, Belief In Male & Female Equality
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The Bizarre, And Really Quite Hilarious, Belief In Male & Female Equality

Marilyn "vos Savant" scored one major victory in her life. (More than most.) She correctly (copied? noodled?) the correct answer to the Monty Hall problem. Which by itself is only…
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