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The Consensus That Wasn’t: Less Than 1%, Not 97%
If I hear that "97% of scientists agree..." nonsense number just one more time---why, I'll laugh. And why not? It is comedy in its best democratic form. That screwy figure…
Posted inPhilosophy SAMT
Summary Against Modern Thought: More On Intellects And The Body
See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. Chapter 69…
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Big Data, Big Predictions — Big Deal!
The title, you'll be shocked to learn, is sarcastic. You'll forgive the tone after reading NBC's article "Big Data's Big Misses: 2016 Was a Bad Year For Predictions", which opens…
Posted inCulture
On That Lone Parishioner At The Portland Episcopal Church
Note: I wrote this piece before I learned of the survey I wrote about a while back at The Stream. Even though some of the material here overlaps, there are…
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Stream: Scientists, Women, The Press Think Trump Is Coming For Them
Stream: Scientists, Women, The Press Think Trump Is Coming For Them. Week or so before the election, there was a rumor bumping around the Internet which said Trump, if he…
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The Vatican’s Biological Extinction Conference
It's old news now that the Pontifical Academy of Sciences has invited the death loving and appalling and serially wrong Paul Ehrlich to its conference on Biological Extinction. LifeSite reports:…
Posted inPhilosophy Statistics
On The Demon Possessed Doll & Little Girl
You might have seen the video of the little girl playing near a doll, a doll which twitches its head without visible promoting. The video switches views and sees the…
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Reality-Based Climate Forecasting — Guest Post by Paul Driessen
Editor's note: since I am sick unto death of the weak anemic emaciated runtish political science of climatology, I refuse to write about it. I can point you to shenanigans…