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Precaution: Part V (Final)—Guest Post by J.C. Hanekamp

Read Part IV Trying to create an ideal world by precautionary design carries utopian overtones of a nostalgic streak, also known the pastoral ideal that is so well described by…

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Privatization Kills?: Or, Doctors Under Government Control Save More Lives?

Quick, answer this without thinking: which is better for your health, living under a communist regime or a capitalist system? If you said "communist", may I wager you're an academic?…

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Adjusted Mass Public Shootings per Decade Uncorrelated With Gun Ownership

Here are the Mass Public Shootings per Decade from the 1900s through 2012, adjusted for population. The rate is mass-shootings per million per decade, using the average population of the…

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Precaution: Part IV—Guest Post by J.C. Hanekamp

Read Part III. Science plays an interesting role in precautionary culture. Overall, science is looked at in our culture as a discerning field of advice in terms of numerous aspects…

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Precaution: Part III—Guest Post by J.C. Hanekamp

Read Part II. Precaution is essential, so the tale goes, to create policies and laws that focus on and tackle uncertainty that might be the foreboding of particular risks. The…

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Anthropogenic Forcing Signals Not Significant? New Polynomial Cointegration Test Paper

I have been asked by a number of people to comment on a new paper that purportedly shows that "statistical tests for global warming fails to find statistically significantly anthropogenic…

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Precaution: Part II—Guest Post by J.C. Hanekamp

For all the flurry surrounding precaution---being portrayed as a decisional/procedural instrument to protect human and environmental health from the (potential) dangers of human activities---the history shows that we are dealing…

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Precaution: Part I — Guest Post by J.C. Hanekamp

The can things with the sharp little edges That can cut your fingers when you're not looking The soft little things on the floor that you step on They can…

Milton Hathaway on What Are The Chances Thomas Jefferson & John Adams Died On The Fourth of July, 1826?June 9, 2025
Channeling Martin Gardner, should other well-known Founding Fathers be included in the calculations? (Samuel Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John…
hudbwu on Science Claims 7% Of Adults Saw A Mass ShootingJune 9, 2025
> And is not explained by “racism”, but by the violent nature of blacks themselves. Recently, I compared the incarceration…
hudbwu on Even The Woke Say Science Is Petering OutJune 9, 2025
> We’ll talk another day about “low-hanging fruit” being plucked and that like. Yes pls. I have a lot of…
Al on What Are The Chances Thomas Jefferson & John Adams Died On The Fourth of July, 1826?June 9, 2025
“…a mistake in something I have wrote…” Genius.
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Just accept the London School Briggs: IQ and the Big Five explain it all. Be a man and nail your…