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Two Kinds Of Bad Statistics Caused By Publish & Perish
Two (main) kinds of bad statistics: (1) where they are used to claim what is not true, and (2) where they are used to claim what is true. The second…
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Russian Roulette And Certainty
Suppose one fine day you pick up your Smith & Wesson 586 ($809 MSRP), a .357 Magnum revolver---which means that thingee in the middle spins around, advancing one round at…
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Epistemology: Peter Kreeft’s Summa Philosophica Part VI
Read Part V. Remember, we're doing summaries of summaries here; only bare sketches are possible. Buy his book for more detail. We are back on familiar stamping groups with Question…
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The Hypocrisy Fallacy: If You Don’t Do What’s Right, I Don’t Have To Either!
We continue our delightful series1 of mistakes in logic, this time highlighting the hypocrisy fallacy. It also has an official Latin name: ad hominem tu quoque, which loosely translated is,…
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Thinking About Dying Or Just Saw Bad Art? Pop A Tylenol, Say Researchers
At last justice! Psychologists are finally admitting that surrealism is painful. Take that starchitects! In your face performance artists! Swallow bitter pills transgressive painters! Actually, swallow Tylenol, because new research…
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Physical Anthropology: Peter Kreeft’s Summa Philosophica Part V
Read Part IV. Remember, we're doing summaries of summaries here; only bare sketches are possible. Buy his book for more detail. Question V is Physical Anthropology. The most contentious question…
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Cosmology: Peter Kreeft’s Summa Philosophica Part IV
Part III Remember, we're doing summaries of summaries here; only bare sketches are possible. Buy his book for more detail. Question IV is Cosmology. The most contentious scientific question is…
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Scientists Claim Brain Scans Can ID Pre-Criminals
"I'm sorry, sir. We cannot recommend Mr Jones be granted parole," said the man in the impressive white coat, on which was embroidered his name and the awe-inspiring initials "MD".…