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Is Moral Certainty Possible?
August 19, 2026
We Passed Peak “Climate Change” (um) Research
August 17, 2026
Sweet Wee Ps Say Sugar Makes You Lose Your Mind
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AI Is Neither Artificial Nor Intelligent
August 12, 2026
You Can’t Con An Honest Man & The Case of Jason Arday
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Academics: Achieve Sustainability by Easing Population to 4 Billion by 2200
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The Impossibility of Proposition Nations
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Ugly Women Rulers Condemn Lookism
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The Wee P Boogie: The Song That’s Sweeping the Nation!
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Wolfgang Smith For Everyone
July 28, 2026
Death By Organ Donation
July 27, 2026
$7.11 at 7:11 PM on 7/11 at 7/11: What Are The Chances?
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Caution Against The Precautionary Principle: Interview with Jaap Hanekamp
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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
July 9, 2026
My Horrible Interaction With AI
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SOON
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The Court’s Slow Theft Of The Constitution — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
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Happy Birthday to US
July 2, 2026
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Is Moral Certainty Possible?

Posted by By Briggs August 19, 2026
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We Passed Peak “Climate Change” (um) Research

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New Zealand Forced To Release New Vax Data: Here’s The Analysis
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New Zealand Forced To Release New Vax Data: Here’s The Analysis

There's been an update on the New Zealand vax data. The government ponied up some official numbers. Some are excited about this. Alas, like the previous leaked data, I don't…
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Statistical Challenge: Can You Rate How Good This Study Was?
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Statistical Challenge: Can You Rate How Good This Study Was?

I will lose many of you today. But for those up for an intellectual challenge, this post is for you. This will not be easy. Let's play a game. I'm…
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Academics Blame Lower Trust In Scientists On Everything But Bad Scientists
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Academics Blame Lower Trust In Scientists On Everything But Bad Scientists

The second sentence of the abstract of a new paper about trust in scientists, which is generally high but in some places low, provides the very reason for distrust: "Public…
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David Deutsch Rediscovers The Worst Argument In The World
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David Deutsch Rediscovers The Worst Argument In The World

You can read the whole story at Jim Franklin's place of how the late and lamented David Stove held a contest for the Worst Argument In The World. In [Stove's]…
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Propaganda Science: Black Women Murdered More Often Than Whites, Implies “Racism” Is At Fault
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Propaganda Science: Black Women Murdered More Often Than Whites, Implies “Racism” Is At Fault

Here's the propaganda headline: "Black women six times more likely to be killed than white women: Report". "Doesn't seem like propaganda to me, Briggs. I'd bet that number is true."…
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CDC Mandates New Hampshire Residents Must Wear Adult Diapers
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CDC Mandates New Hampshire Residents Must Wear Adult Diapers

Yes, you read the headline right. Here's how it came about. Earlier this year a "Diaper Spa" opened its doors in Atkinson, New Hampshire. (Click the link if you think…
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The Regime Has Never Looked So Weak. What Will They Do Next?
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The Regime Has Never Looked So Weak. What Will They Do Next?

This is a post written in haste, and I welcome, more than usual, your take on the events of the day, since I surely missed a lot. So Tucker Carlson…
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The World’s Easiest Sociological Prediction Has Been Verified
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The World’s Easiest Sociological Prediction Has Been Verified

We've discussed the Expansion Team Effect many times. I'm always embarrassed to do so because it's so simple it's a truism. What's weird about it is that, presented one way,…
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  1. Alistair on We Passed Peak “Climate Change” (um) ResearchAugust 19, 2026

    Google Scholar's result counts are extremely broad estimates and highly opaque. It's not a reliable or reproducible method assessing topical…

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    […] that annotates viral images posted the story on July 23, 2026. It described the customer paying $7.11 at 7-Eleven…

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    The number of new climate change papers is proportional to USAID funding and inversely proportional to the number of new…

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    I'm not worried about "climate change" or "covid". I'm worried about what BS the money-hungry and power-hungry, and the useful…

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    "The graph is not normalized by number of scientists. In 1960, there were far fewer scientists than there are now.…

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