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Is This The Real William M. Briggs?
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Poor Statistics Undermine The Reliability Of Neuroscience
Note carefully the picture which accompanies this post. The right-most glow is centered on the upper-middle-fifth amygdalic cingulatum region of your author's brain. Statistics show that this region is "associated"…
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General Ethics: Peter Kreeft’s Summa Philosophica Part VII
Read Part VI. Remember, we're doing summaries of summaries here; only bare sketches are possible. Buy his book for more detail. Question VII is fun: General Ethics. That morality really…
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Belief In God Associated With Psychiatric Symptoms
Medicalizing Belief Would you say that a guy who claims he believes in a "just" God suffers from "psychiatric symptoms"? What if we swap "just" for "critical." Do we have…
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Two Kinds Of Bad Statistics Caused By Publish & Perish
Two (main) kinds of bad statistics: (1) where they are used to claim what is not true, and (2) where they are used to claim what is true. The second…
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Russian Roulette And Certainty
Suppose one fine day you pick up your Smith & Wesson 586 ($809 MSRP), a .357 Magnum revolver---which means that thingee in the middle spins around, advancing one round at…
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Epistemology: Peter Kreeft’s Summa Philosophica Part VI
Read Part V. Remember, we're doing summaries of summaries here; only bare sketches are possible. Buy his book for more detail. We are back on familiar stamping groups with Question…
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The Hypocrisy Fallacy: If You Don’t Do What’s Right, I Don’t Have To Either!
We continue our delightful series1 of mistakes in logic, this time highlighting the hypocrisy fallacy. It also has an official Latin name: ad hominem tu quoque, which loosely translated is,…