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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…

Statistics

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…

Culture

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…

Culture

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:…

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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…

Statistics

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…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: How An Intellectual Substance Can Be The Form Of A 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. Be sure…

Briggs on Is Powerball A “Fair Game”?December 20, 2025
Dixon, Say. I have a marvelous idea. Can you guess what is it?
Dixon E Duval on Is Powerball A “Fair Game”?December 20, 2025
Briggs was such a power house 20 -25 years ago and it is disappointing to see his present day email…
hudbwu on On The Form Of Species: ‘Dance To The Tune Of Life’ by Denis Noble ReviewedDecember 17, 2025
Funny, many decades ago I wondered why do males exist. As in, why waste 50% of a species' total biomass…
hudbwu on How To Tell How Much Of “IQ” Is Inherited & How Much Is EnvironmentDecember 17, 2025
Okay, so the data tells us that if one twin is stupid... er, I mean, if one twin scores low…
Briggs on On The Form Of Species: ‘Dance To The Tune Of Life’ by Denis Noble ReviewedDecember 17, 2025
Rhetocrates, Quite right.