Posted inPhilosophy
The So’s Yer Old Man Fallacy
For the closing days of summer, I am posting every chapter of the first edition of Everything You Believe Is Wrong. My enemies ravaged the first edition, inserting typos galore…
Posted inPhilosophy
The Most Common Fallacies Our Enemies Use
For the closing days of summer, I am posting every chapter of the first edition of Everything You Believe Is Wrong. My enemies ravaged the first edition, inserting typos galore…
Posted inCulture
People Of No Color Compel The Very Heavens To Obey!
I can understand why people of color feel so bad so often about so many things. They compare themselves to people of no color, and they discover that they come…
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N.S. Lyons On The Shape & Trajectory Of The Expertocracy
The most important book (or booklet) you can read this year about nature of the Expertocracy, and the differences between Expertocracies, is N.S. Lyons's (sub-optimally named) The China Convergence, a…
Posted inStatistics
Scientists Use The Double-Dog Epidemiologist Fallacy To Claim Breathing Induces Antibiotic Resistance
Thanks to AS! I don't have your email, so I hope you see this. The epidemiologist fallacy occurs when a scientist announces, directly or implicitly, that X Causes Y, but…
Posted inCulture
Climate Propaganda Doing A Magnificent Job, Pew Confirms
Remember that New Jersey school system that adds "climate change" propaganda to every class in each year of schooling, kindergarten through twelfth grade? They, and schools like them, are doing…
Posted inCulture
What Happened At An Academic Expert Disinformation Summit
We---but not Anon, who reports below---missed the Cambridge Disinformation Summit, held the last week of July (Videoes). Conference organizers described their sensitivity soirée thusly: Strategic disinformation is an accelerant for…
Posted inBook review
Crazy Eddie’s Craziest Scams
You must have seen the ads (like this). Even if you didn't live in or around New York, they were infamous. They featured radioman Jerry Carroll---I was disappointed to learn…
