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Cheating With Polls Down Under. Guest Post by Stephen Dawson

Today's post is from our friend Stephen Dawson, who writes at hifi-writer.com. I scheduled this in advance, knowing I'd be suffering jet lag. Professor Will Steffen from the Australian National…

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The Need To Believe In “The Solution” To Global Warming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgM1yhwj1mg Travel day, plus I wanted to have this on its own anyway. Speech given at the Tenth International Conference on Climate Change, June 12, 2015 in Washington, DC. The…

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Corrigan Brothers’ Statistics Song. Finally Released!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k2j96hpEkM Ladies and Gentlemen, it has arrived. The world famous Corrigan Brothers have another hit! What they did for Barack Obama in their mega-smash There's No One As Irish As…

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The Stream: The Scientific Pantheist Who Advises Pope Francis

Today's post is at The Stream, "The Scientific Pantheist Who Advises Pope Francis: The scientist who influenced Laudato Si, and who serves at the Vatican's science office, seems to believe…

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Randomness And The “Null” Hypothesis

Last week of teaching! Randomness is not a cause. Neither is chance. It is always a mistake to say things like "explainable by chance", "random change", "the differences are random",…

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The Stream: Laudato Si on the Science of Global Warming

Today's post is at The Stream. Laudato Si on the Science of Global Warming: Loud and Clear and Mistaken. In a recent meeting Pope Francis held with priests in Rome's…

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Crisis: Leaked Laudato Lamented

I'm still in the midst of teaching. We go all day, 9 to 5. I have no access to the Internet or email during this time. And after, I head…

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Pope’s Encyclical Leaked: Relevant Climate Portion

I've been asked to do pieces on this in other places, which I'm on, but I'm also teaching from 9 to 5 today, so for us all I can do…

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Brother Cary, look harder. Everything you see reveals God. The complexity of your eye reveals God. The act of seeing,…
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CDC: You have been given an opportunity. You have vociferously declined it. You have made your choice, which is the…
Brian (bulaoren) on The Dysgenics Of IVFNovember 12, 2025
Back in the 1990s, progressives had a hero named Dr. Jack Kevorkian (aka " Dr. Death") Good old Jack might…