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Belgian Judge Wants To Arrest Little Nate Cofnast Because Cofnast Says Smart People Are Smarter Than Dumb People
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Class 83: Why Were Paul Ehrlich’s Predictions So Good (and so Bad)?
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The Great Effeminization of the Academy
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The Only Metric That Matters: Or, Pinker’s Folly
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On Not Reading
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Class 81: The Second Biggest Error In Time Series
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The Paper Test Shows Why AGI Is Not Possible: And Why The Brain Is Different In Kind
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Researcher Imagines Weather With No Human Influence: Concludes Climate Change Hurts Incomes
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Faith Deposited: Why Godless Science Fails
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Class 80: Granger Causality; Per Se & Accidental Time Series; Stationarity
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Scientists Seeking To Escape Criticism Run To The Warmth & Comfort Of Bluesky
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The Loss of Ephemera — Guest Post by The Blonde Bombshell
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Class 79: Time Series Example
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The Importance Of Not Making Decisions
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Don’t Take The ‘Long-Covid’ Alzheimer’s Study Seriously
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Belgian Judge Wants To Arrest Little Nate Cofnast Because Cofnast Says Smart People Are Smarter Than Dumb People

Posted by By Briggs March 23, 2026
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Class 83: Why Were Paul Ehrlich’s Predictions So Good (and so Bad)?

Posted by By Briggs March 19, 2026
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What New Laws Criminalizing “Hate Speech” Really Mean
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What New Laws Criminalizing “Hate Speech” Really Mean

Yesterday we investigated the I Have Ascended Beyond Fallacy, which is invoked when academic Experts, baffled their theories are not as loved by others as by themselves, try to explain…
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The I Have Ascended Beyond Fallacy
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The I Have Ascended Beyond Fallacy

There is a special kind of argument you hear only from academic Experts. Non-academic non-Experts never use it; or, if they do, I've not seen any example (beyond parroting AEs).…
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What To Do About Black Crime?
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What To Do About Black Crime?

Note: This blog is mirrored at Substack for those who prefer that format. Here is a video from late last week, a common kind, a kind which you have seen…
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More On The Tyranny Of Experts: CDC & Banning Driving
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More On The Tyranny Of Experts: CDC & Banning Driving

Want to hear a great joke about our burgeoning Expertocracy? Rochelle Walensky still has her job. Hilarious! Not as funny as England's Experts proposing those under 25 can't drive their…
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If You Had To Choose “Ignore Or Believe All Academics On Climate Change”, Which Is Smarter?
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If You Had To Choose “Ignore Or Believe All Academics On Climate Change”, Which Is Smarter?

Update See the Twitter thread (and account) for many more examples. NOBODY has been able to find a word yet that Experts haven't tied to "climate change." Got an email…
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Doctors At NEJM Release Important New Statement: Do Not Get Sick
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Doctors At NEJM Release Important New Statement: Do Not Get Sick

It's not certain---where I take that word in its strict sense---that the men on our side of Reality are right about how to gain and keep health. Should you slonk…
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How The Laws Of Physics Lie
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How The Laws Of Physics Lie

The title is Nancy Cartwright's, from her book of the same name, and from an article which forms Chapter 3, "Do the Laws of Physics State the Facts?" No, she…
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On Why That “In Defense of Merit in Science” Paper Will Fail In Its Worthy Goal
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On Why That “In Defense of Merit in Science” Paper Will Fail In Its Worthy Goal

You might have heard of the peer-reviewed article "In Defense of Merit in Science" by "intellectual dark web" members like Peter Boghossian and old-school lefties like Jerry Coyne, John McWhorter…
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  1. shawn marshall on Belgian Judge Wants To Arrest Little Nate Cofnast Because Cofnast Says Smart People Are Smarter Than Dumb PeopleMarch 23, 2026

    Jordan Petersen has quoted IQ racial differences for years - based upon tests that remove the advantages of social milieu

  2. spetzer86 on Belgian Judge Wants To Arrest Little Nate Cofnast Because Cofnast Says Smart People Are Smarter Than Dumb PeopleMarch 23, 2026

    Jordan Peterson's discussion regarding intelligence and how people with IQ's below 100 are struggling with today's jobs and how this…

  3. Tars Tarkas on Belgian Judge Wants To Arrest Little Nate Cofnast Because Cofnast Says Smart People Are Smarter Than Dumb PeopleMarch 23, 2026

    IMHO, intelligence does not define moral worth. This seems to be the sticking point for people like the learned judge.…

  4. Sid Porter on Belgian Judge Wants To Arrest Little Nate Cofnast Because Cofnast Says Smart People Are Smarter Than Dumb PeopleMarch 23, 2026

    Tread carefully here Sarge. Buried deep in Belgian law it is probably illegal to criticize judges. I hear the waffles…

  5. Brian (bulaoren) on Belgian Judge Wants To Arrest Little Nate Cofnast Because Cofnast Says Smart People Are Smarter Than Dumb PeopleMarch 23, 2026

    The crime, of which Mr. Cofnast stands accused, is called "Noticing"; Steve Sailor wrote a book about it.

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