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Stream: Vatican Environmental Conference: A Marriage of Bad Governors and Bad Science

Today's post is at the Stream: Vatican Environmental Conference: A Marriage of Bad Governors and Bad Science. The excerpt here keeps my caveman joke which was lost somewhere downstream. Jerry…

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Bread From Something Or Nothing? Or, What’s A Miracle?

We interrupt our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles for this brief message. You've heard of the miracle of loaves and fishes? What's a miracle? How do miracles happen? Read these…

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More Reasons Not To Use The Precautionary Principle: Update

All probability is conditional and we are always interested in some proposition, call it X. We want to know "the probability of X". Well, there is none: not ever. There…

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Stream: Attack Of The Black Swans From Outer Space!

Today's post is at The Stream: "Attack Of The Black Swans From Outer Space: Nassim Nicholas Taleb and his co-authors fail to show their precautionary principle provides any guidance in…

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Climate Change Alarmists Appear Immunized Against Reality at The Federalist

Today's post is at The Federalist: "Climate Change Alarmists Appear Immunized Against Reality". So Ars Technica sent a young man who bills himself as an "educator" and hydrologist to the…

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Idols With Wee P Values. Statistics As Ritual

Or, rather, wee p-values are idolized. And it isn't just me saying so. Reader Dan Hughes points us to Gerd Gigerenzer and Julian Marewski's peer-reviewed paper "Surrogate Science: The Idol…

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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…

C-Marie on Politicians Demand “Right” To Be Protected Against AISeptember 15, 2026
Thank you, Matt. Great information, especially regarding the road to power. Our God is on the move. Let us all,…
Tars Tarkas on The MRS Degree — Guest Post by Johnathan EdwardsSeptember 15, 2026
Vance destroyed his bloodline by marrying and reproducing with an Indian. I would vote for Kamala Harris before voting for…
shawn marshall on The MRS Degree — Guest Post by Johnathan EdwardsSeptember 15, 2026
if you were so privileged, author, you might notice that the errors of Russia 1917 have spread throughout the world…
John Pate on Politicians Demand “Right” To Be Protected Against AISeptember 14, 2026
And people have the gall to claim the USA isn't communist.
Uncle Mike on Politicians Demand “Right” To Be Protected Against AISeptember 14, 2026
"I think, therefore I am." - ChatGPT Oh no, the robots are coming, the robots are coming! Quick, huddle in…