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Capital Punishment Deters Crime More Than The Death Penalty
May 11, 2026
How Experts Use “Calamities” to Find Official Victims & Gain Power
May 6, 2026
Richard Dawkins, The Big Muscles Fallacy & AI Pachinko
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Class 88: The Most Neglected Concept: Skill
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The Red-Blue Button Dilemma & Its Surprising Answer
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UFO Reports About To Blast Off!
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Class 87: Calibration & Conformal Prediction: Examples
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Noticing Differences Between Races Does Not Pay
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What Are The Chances Of All These Scientists Dying, Killed, Or Going Missing?
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Class 86: Calibration & Conformal Prediction: Theory
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How A Miracle Turns Mundane
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Contest Winner Announced!
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Trump’s Last Stand: Mea Culpa, Redux — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
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Class 85: Proper Scores of Model Goodness
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Proof!
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Justice Ketanji Roars
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Iran Has Caught Covid: A Reason For The War
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Class 84: Most Important Measure of Model Goodness
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There Is No Solution To Crashing Fertility: Good Times Made Soft Men
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Did The Pope Really Say Health Is A “Right”?
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All Models Only Say What They Are Told To Say, And AI Is A Model
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Capital Punishment Deters Crime More Than The Death Penalty

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How Experts Use “Calamities” to Find Official Victims & Gain Power

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N.S. Lyons On The Shape & Trajectory Of The Expertocracy
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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…
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Scientists Use The Double-Dog Epidemiologist Fallacy To Claim Breathing Induces Antibiotic Resistance
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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…
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Climate Propaganda Doing A Magnificent Job, Pew Confirms
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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…
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What Happened At An Academic Expert Disinformation Summit
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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…
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Crazy Eddie’s Craziest Scams
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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…
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Soy Boy vs Moi Boi & The Fate Of Russia — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
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Soy Boy vs Moi Boi & The Fate Of Russia — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Is it possible? Can it be true that behind the scenes of the Ukrainian War there is a deep-state complicity between the Western WEF-types and the Eastern ‘Sino-Soviet’ types? That…
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Mask Forever, Says Experts’ Model, It Saves Lives!
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Mask Forever, Says Experts’ Model, It Saves Lives!

Here's a question for you, brought to you by propagandists: "Could permanent masks in public become Vic policy?" And here's the headline: "Could wearing masks in public be the answer…
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Does Admitting Spengler’s End Of Science Mean We Have To Accept Ways Of Knowing?
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Does Admitting Spengler’s End Of Science Mean We Have To Accept Ways Of Knowing?

Let's expand a point made in the post Blish & Spengler On The End Science. Both Blish, in his summary of Spengler, and Spengler himself, said that West Civilization (in…
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    How about three strikes, and you're dead, which of course would only be for the very violent criminals. Why warehouse…

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    General Pyotr Wrangel in his bokk "Always with Honor" immediately stopped the predation by his own troo[s upon peasants by…

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    As I (computer engineer, retired) have always maintained: people who believe in mechanical inteligence suffer from "Clever Hans Syndrome". A…

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