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The Pope Is Wrong About Global Warming
God bless Pope Francis. But he is wrong about global warming, and even wronger about "special interests" trying to keep global warming going. The Holy Father knows a lot more…
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Ridley Claims Materialists, Atheists, & Secular Humanists Don’t Preach
Matt Ridley has a curious piece in The Times (no, the better one), "Why Muslims are turning away from Islam". (Incidentally, Ridley and I both have chapters in the new…
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The Crybaby Fallacy (Which Atheists Often Use)
Many atheists are notorious for arguing from desire. (Be ever careful of the So's-Yer-Old-Man Fallacy.) God doesn't exist, they say or imply, because He's a big meanie, because His demands…
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This Week In Doom: Meat Eating & The Sins Of Sexual Normalcy
Too many people eating too much meat? The Stream has the most hilarious, but eminently practical, article "There Aren't as Many People as a Lot of Environmentalists Think: Some Elementary…
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Stop Teaching Frequentism; More On That “Altruism” Study; Etc.
Freq Out Reader ECM points us to "The Great Statistical Schism", by a fellow named Brendon Brewer who "is a senior lecturer in the Department of Statistics in Auckland." Brewer…
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This Week In Doom: Paris Open Thread (And Mizzou Tie In?)
Allahu Akbar Those who refuse to say "This is true" must fall to those who will. Hey, Paris, how's that assimilation thing going for you? Come to think of it,…
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Armed Students Take Over Cornell University
A group of militant black students at Cornell "occupied" Willard Straight Hall. They were armed with shotguns and other firearms with which they threatened violence. Why? To protest Cornell's "racist…
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Stream: The Joys of Divesting from Reality (And Not Just Oil)
Okay, sisters and brothers, only a handful of folks clicked over to the National Association of Scholars to read their must-read (but not-yet-read) report Inside Divestment: The Illiberal Movement to…