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Washington State Bar to DIE: No More Bar Exam Because Diversity
Though I dislike doing a topic more than once during a week, it's been a while since we last reviewed our woke DIE litany. But the State of Washington forced…
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Recent Appearances: Fate Of The World & Broken Science
I was on some podcasts recently discussing the fate of our sad world in part, and talking Broken Science a lot. I still stuck by my prediction that come the…
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Yes, They Are Still Coming For Our Gas Stoves
Scientists chase after fads as much, and maybe even more, than anybody else. We have seen this numberless times, "climate change" and covid being the two most prominent examples. Every…
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Science: Climate Changes Causes Only Bad Things, And No Good Things
So I saw this headline, "The International Eczema Council investigate how climate change may impact eczema". And I remembered I owed readers an investigation into all the bad things, and…
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Why This Weird Fetish Over Blacks?
Britain announced that the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square will be graced with this sculpture: It is, according to one story, a "bronze and blue homage to a metropolitan woman…
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Does Quantum Mechanics Speak To Theology? — Guest Post by Bob Kurland
“I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.” Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize winner for his research on quantum electrodynamics INTRODUCTION Seventy years ago when I first heard…
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AI Needs To Feed On Fresh Meat, Or It Dies
In Asimov's original Foundation, a novel set amidst a fading and decaying Empire, one saturated in hubris and self-esteem, we meet Lord Dorwin, a celebrated scholar from the Galactic Empire,…
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Broken Science Epistemological Camp Report
There was another Broken Science event this past weekend in the Phoenix area. Yours Truly was there. I gather the videos will be on line at some point, at the…