The general theory, methods, and philosophy of the Science of Guessing What Is.
Here’s the wonderful Daily Mail headline: “Healthy young people are dying suddenly and unexpectedly from a mysterious syndrome – as doctors seek answers through a new national register“. Even better is the […]
An article in Psychology Today, a deeply earnest and condemnatory article on disinformation and the brave efforts to “fight” it using “prebunking”, contains the following sentence: “Every day around 9 p.m., Joan […]
Probability does not exist; therefore, nothing has a probability, so nothing can be caused by probability, though the uncertainty of statements can be had conditional on assumptions, and this probability changes when […]
I once did a talk on this subject at Spain’s Royal Institute of Science during the first global warming panic, but I did a lousy job. Now, at the time of our […]
“Racism”, the late-great philosopher David Stove told us in his gorgeous essay “Racial and Other Antagonisms” (found, e.g., here), is “one of those words which are so perfectly foolish that they are […]
Here is the abstract (with my paragraphifications and emphasis) from the peer-reviewed paper “The unbearable heaviness of climate coloniality” appearing in Political Geography by someone named Sultana. The extremely uneven and inequitable […]
You’ve seen the headline, “World Ends: Favored Victims Hardest Hit,” and you’ve laughed. The Noble Victims differ, slightly, by country. There is no class of being nobler or respected or reverenced than […]
Take a look-see at this science pic: This is the output from some model, the nature of which is not especially interesting, and the accompanying observations. In other words, predictions and the […]
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