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CDC Panel Unanimously Recommends Truth Be Damned: Kids & The Coronadoom Vex

Update Well, they voted the wrong way. I'm also a bit surprised there doesn't seem much interest in this news. How quickly we surrender? Rochelle Walensky, the head of CDC,…

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Moving Away From The Mysticism Of “Random” Numbers

ET Jaynes in his must-have Probability Theory: The Logic of Science said, "It appears to be a quite general principle that, whenever there is a randomized way of doing something,…

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All Those Warnings About Models Are True: Researchers Given Same Data Come To Huge Number Of Conflicting Findings

Seventy-some researcher groups were given identical data, and asked to investigate an identical question. The groups did not communicate. Details are in the paper "Observing Many Researchers Using the Same…

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The Disparagement Of Epidemiology

I was having an argument with a friend who was on his way to a conference to point out the shortcomings and over-confidence of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM). With EBM,…

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The Five Main Reasons Science Is Broken

The five main reasons Science is broken are: 1. Woke & DIE 2. The Expansion Team Effect & Money 3. The Expertocracy 4. Scientism & Scidolatry 5. Bad Philosophy A…

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The Dutch Nitrogen “Crisis” Explained — Jaap Hanekamp Interview

Jaap Hanekamp and I discuss the Dutch nitrogen "crisis." Farmers in the Netherlands are unhappy with government wanting to shut them down or reduce their operations, because of a supposed…

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Why “The Science” Settled On “Carbon”

The answer to the question Why "The Science" Settled On "Carbon" is easy. The Science settled on "carbon" because it's easy. See? Easy is the answer, as promised. Now that…

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The Pandemic Is Over, Biden Said. No! We Need It, Experts Said

It's always fun when Biden is not under strict supervision---super vision; apt, that, in our technological age. Were those earplugs? Anyway, when not in the eye, he usually ends up…

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I asked myself the same question as your viewer, Bill, when trying to engage online readers about the logical (and…