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The Is-Pope-Francis-The-Pope Debate Continues. Two Views from Edmund J Mazza and Steven O’Reilly
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The Is-Pope-Francis-The-Pope Debate Continues. Two Views from Edmund J Mazza and Steven O’Reilly

This won't interest everybody, but it's still worth considering given the woke revolution taking place inside the Catholic Church. Which will, in due time, be overthrown. Though not without many…
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Google Knew Exactly What They Were Doing: Models Only Do What They Are Told
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Google Knew Exactly What They Were Doing: Models Only Do What They Are Told

So Google tried to get away with its "AI" named Gemini, which is to say its hard-coded dumb (in the medical sense) model named Gemini, substituting blacks and the occasional…
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What The Psychic Theory Of Sheep & Goats Tells Us About Our Most Cherished Belief
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What The Psychic Theory Of Sheep & Goats Tells Us About Our Most Cherished Belief

Here is a true story. See if it rings any bells. Not in the story itself, which you likely won't know. I mean see if it sounds like anything you…
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France’s Confusing New Law Criminalizing Criticizing The Science
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France’s Confusing New Law Criminalizing Criticizing The Science

My knowledge of French law rivals that of Fifteenth Century Congolese poetry. So I know I am on risky ground commenting on a newly passed law that many are saying,…
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Academics Blame Lower Trust In Scientists On Everything But Bad Scientists
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Academics Blame Lower Trust In Scientists On Everything But Bad Scientists

The second sentence of the abstract of a new paper about trust in scientists, which is generally high but in some places low, provides the very reason for distrust: "Public…
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CDC Mandates New Hampshire Residents Must Wear Adult Diapers
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CDC Mandates New Hampshire Residents Must Wear Adult Diapers

Yes, you read the headline right. Here's how it came about. Earlier this year a "Diaper Spa" opened its doors in Atkinson, New Hampshire. (Click the link if you think…
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The Regime Has Never Looked So Weak. What Will They Do Next?
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The Regime Has Never Looked So Weak. What Will They Do Next?

This is a post written in haste, and I welcome, more than usual, your take on the events of the day, since I surely missed a lot. So Tucker Carlson…
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The World’s Easiest Sociological Prediction Has Been Verified
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The World’s Easiest Sociological Prediction Has Been Verified

We've discussed the Expansion Team Effect many times. I'm always embarrassed to do so because it's so simple it's a truism. What's weird about it is that, presented one way,…
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  1. gareth on Class 61: Does This Guy Have ESP? IIAugust 16, 2025

    Errr... Calculating the probability of what we did see should be = 100% So why calculate it? (Enquiring minds, etc.)

  2. Johnno on Funding Increases To Foster Even More Cheating In ScienceAugust 14, 2025

    Briggs you fool... what you so outdatingly call cheating, I prefer to see as a more progressive healthy open relationship…

  3. hudbwu on Lying Increases Trust In Science, Says AcademicAugust 14, 2025

    To be fair, the center of this article (that I looked at from the link provided) is a reduction-to-absurd argument…

  4. hudbwu on Funding Increases To Foster Even More Cheating In ScienceAugust 14, 2025

    I love how the scale in the last graph is *LoGaRithMic_!

  5. hudbwu on Compulsory Moral Bioenhancement Should Be Covert Says Academic Who Says Ticks Should Be Genetically Modified To Stop You Eating MeatAugust 14, 2025

    Do you remember the time when craving loonies posted these things not in peer-reviewed journals, but on Internet fora? Man,…

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