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Against Numerology: Some Basic Calculations
October 19, 2026
Class 97: The Goal Of Models
October 15, 2026
Book Update
October 14, 2026
Sexual Assault Galore At Cornell
October 12, 2026
Class 96: Can Bayesianism Quantify True Belief?
October 8, 2026
Top 10 Reasons AI Will Never Become Superintelligence: It Won’t Destroy Nor Save Us
October 5, 2026
Viewer Asks: Why Do I Bother?
October 1, 2026
Academics Call For The Killing Of Babies In “After-Birth” Abortions
September 30, 2026
Irrational Rationalists: Effective Altruists & The Planet of the Ants
September 28, 2026
Class 95: Answering P-Value Good Uses Challenges
September 25, 2026
Whoring For Climate Change
September 23, 2026
Lady Academics Tire Of Being Judged By Peer Review
September 21, 2026
Class 94: Quantifying The Unquantifiable
September 17, 2026
PFAS and Preservatives: Entrenching Chemophobia through Everyday Stuff — Guest Post by Jaap Hanekamp
September 16, 2026
The MRS Degree — Guest Post by Johnathan Edwards
September 15, 2026
Politicians Demand “Right” To Be Protected Against AI
September 14, 2026
Class 93: P-values Challenge! List The “Good Uses” of P-value
September 10, 2026
Is the West Dying Out? The Demographic Crisis Explained: Jon Harris Podcast
September 9, 2026
Lindsay Clancy Strangled Her Kids Because Of “Climate Change”
September 8, 2026
Do Dogs Poop In Alignment With The Earth’s Magnetic Field?
September 3, 2026
Lewontin’s Other Fallacy: Race & Intelligence
September 1, 2026
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Against Numerology: Some Basic Calculations

Posted by By Briggs October 19, 2026
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Class 97: The Goal Of Models

Posted by By Briggs October 15, 2026
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Washington State Bar to DIE: No More Bar Exam Because Diversity
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Washington State Bar to DIE: No More Bar Exam Because Diversity

Though I dislike doing a topic more than once during a week, it's been a while since we last reviewed our woke DIE litany. But the State of Washington forced…
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Recent Appearances: Fate Of The World & Broken Science
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Recent Appearances: Fate Of The World & Broken Science

I was on some podcasts recently discussing the fate of our sad world in part, and talking Broken Science a lot. I still stuck by my prediction that come the…
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Yes, They Are Still Coming For Our Gas Stoves
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Yes, They Are Still Coming For Our Gas Stoves

Scientists chase after fads as much, and maybe even more, than anybody else. We have seen this numberless times, "climate change" and covid being the two most prominent examples. Every…
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Science: Climate Changes Causes Only Bad Things, And No Good Things
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Science: Climate Changes Causes Only Bad Things, And No Good Things

So I saw this headline, "The International Eczema Council investigate how climate change may impact eczema". And I remembered I owed readers an investigation into all the bad things, and…
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Why This Weird Fetish Over Blacks?
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Why This Weird Fetish Over Blacks?

Britain announced that the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square will be graced with this sculpture: It is, according to one story, a "bronze and blue homage to a metropolitan woman…
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Does Quantum Mechanics Speak To Theology? — Guest Post by Bob Kurland
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Does Quantum Mechanics Speak To Theology? — Guest Post by Bob Kurland

“I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.” Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize winner for his research on quantum electrodynamics INTRODUCTION Seventy years ago when I first heard…
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AI Needs To Feed On Fresh Meat, Or It Dies
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AI Needs To Feed On Fresh Meat, Or It Dies

In Asimov's original Foundation, a novel set amidst a fading and decaying Empire, one saturated in hubris and self-esteem, we meet Lord Dorwin, a celebrated scholar from the Galactic Empire,…
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Broken Science Epistemological Camp Report
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Broken Science Epistemological Camp Report

There was another Broken Science event this past weekend in the Phoenix area. Yours Truly was there. I gather the videos will be on line at some point, at the…
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    The mathematician Richard Guy wrote a paper "The strong law of small numbers", where he said, facetiously, but also serirously:…

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    I'm looking forward to the book; warts and all the first was enlightening and fun to read.

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    I'm a big fan of LaTeX. I wrote a class package that made it into one or more of the…

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    i have your first edition which I read, pencil in hand foor the typos. Loved it anyway! Will be buying…

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    Hello again, friend Briggs How colloquial is your French? Please allow me to be te first to wish you; Merde!

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