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A Partial Solution For The Replication Crisis In Economics
I was invited by friends at Banking University, in Ho Chi Minh City, to write a paper with the title of today's post. That paper is here at this link,…
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(Yet Another) New Paper Proves There Is No Nitrogen “Crisis” In The Netherlands
There is in the Netherlands a concocted "nitrogen crisis", which has all the earmarks of a manufactured panic. I don't mean in the conspiratorial sense. I mean in the Expert-created…
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How Can A Man Who Loses A Race Be Called The Winner & What Does This Have To Do With Science?
In which we start simple, stay simple, come to Plateau Easy, and the readers begins to wonder why he bothers, which he discovers at the end to his puzzlement. Get…
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If We Cannot Reject Woke Premises (Like Equality), We Must Suffer Their Logical Conclusions
This paper is going around: "A Pediatrician’s Manifesto for the Modernization of Gender Medicine", by Erica Li. About the "queering" of medicine. The author is against it, as am I,…
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How People Come To Believe Something As Stupid As Male & Female Equality
Thanatos Savehn reminded be of this Atlantic piece from a decade ago: "The Truth About Little Women Carrying Big Wounded Men in Combat", by somebody using the name Elspeth Reeve.…
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Academics Say Morality Isn’t Decreasing, But The Increasing Numbers Who Say It Is Decreasing Cause Morality To Decrease
This is part of our Mind of Academics series. I struggled both long, and, yes, hard, to come up with a clever joke to introduce today's academic "research", which claims…
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End All Formal Science Journals & Papers
Time to return to the beginning. End formal science papers and let scientists talk freely amongst themselves. Here's why. Heard about the formal peer-reviewed paper "Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent…
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There Is No Difference Between A Proposal, Hypothesis, Model, Theory or Law
Ready for some Logic 101? Something real easy, I promise. We'll use it in service to show why falsificationism is not that interesting, or useful, and we'll need it in…