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The Political Corruption Of Science — Sex Assigned At Birth Edition

A peer-reviewed paper that caused a ripple in awareness before Christmas is worth investigating. Outlets ran headlines like this: "Trans children sense their gender identities at young ages, study suggests."…

Statistics

On That Climate-Change-Now-Detectable-From-Any-Single-Day-Of-Weather Paper

The peer-reviewed paper is "Climate change now detectable from any single day of weather at global scale" by Sippel and Knutti an others in Nature: Climate Change. Look at that…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Animals Are Lower Than Man

Previous post. Only the lowest forms of slavery seek to control the thoughts of the slaves. Also see paragraph 12 for why it's okay to eat meat. THAT RATIONAL CREATURES…

Culture

The Week In Doom — California School Free-For-All Edition

Here are two weeks of Doom crammed into one. Item Bombs away! Either it's WWIII or just one more dead body in the Mideast pleasing the usual suspects. Ben Shapiro…

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The Political Corruption Of Science — Mandatory Oaths To Diversity Edition

We continue our series of the pozzing of science by Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity (DIE) mavens (the DIE is from Steve Sailer). A mathematician wrote in the Wall Street Journal…

Culture Fun

How’d We Do On Our 2019 Predictions?

A strong no prize this year. Nobody did well enough. Not enough specific predictions, or those that were specific did not come to pass. Doom predictions are too easy: they…

Culture Fun

Register Your Predictions for 2020!

As has been our tradition these many years, it's time to register our predictions for the coming year. We look at how well we did last year tomorrow. Rules: Everybody…

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Blog Year In Review: Top 10 Reader & My Favorites

Tune in tomorrow to make your 2020 predictions! Results for 2019 coming Thursday. Reader Favorites Here were the Top 10 reader favorite posts of 2019, in which the numbers surprised…

Brian (bulaoren) on The Red-Blue Button Dilemma & Its Surprising AnswerApril 29, 2026
As you suggested, I have, so far, read nothing beyond the question. What is not clear to me is...Do the…
Zundfolge on The Red-Blue Button Dilemma & Its Surprising AnswerApril 29, 2026
I have to wonder if the colors were reversed if that would influence people's choice. Because the way the blue…
NLR on The Red-Blue Button Dilemma & Its Surprising AnswerApril 29, 2026
Not sure why the dollar signs did not work and made everything italicized, but the sentence should say: If the…
McChuck on The Red-Blue Button Dilemma & Its Surprising AnswerApril 29, 2026
“Blue pushers are useless cattle. I’d feel no dread knowing they would all die.” Yes. The colors of the buttons…
NLR on The Red-Blue Button Dilemma & Its Surprising AnswerApril 29, 2026
As you point out, the whole thing with these questions is in the initial setup. Whoever invented this one, deliberately…