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Blish & Spengler On The End Science
Posted inPhilosophy

Blish & Spengler On The End Science

The National Association of Scholars is hosting a webinar this Friday, 3 PM EST: Is Science Broken? featuring Yours Truly. Free, but you have to register. We were introduced to…
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Reconciling Mike Flynn & Fr Ripperger On Evolution: Creation or Completion of New Essences?
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Reconciling Mike Flynn & Fr Ripperger On Evolution: Creation or Completion of New Essences?

The National Association of Scholars is hosting a webinar this Friday, 3 PM EST: Is Science Broken? featuring Yours Truly. Free, but you have to register. The Beginning Before we…
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Climate The Science Causes Blindness
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Climate The Science Causes Blindness

The average daily temperature in Singapore is 88 degrees. Or, in barbarian units, 31. Every day of the year. Here's the headline: "Now scientists say climate change is making us…
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The Broken Science Initiative Podcast Has Commenced!
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The Broken Science Initiative Podcast Has Commenced!

Here's the main link. Most, and maybe even all, the platforms you use are linked. Or you can even listen at the site itself. The episodes I recorded are mostly…
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Russia’s Patience, Russia’s Victory — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
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Russia’s Patience, Russia’s Victory — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

The good news? The Empire is crumbling. The bad? It’s happening very slowly. Too slow for the impatient, that is. That group, of course, does not include Komrade Vlad. From…
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On Breaking Climate Records — And Not Panicking
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On Breaking Climate Records — And Not Panicking

Thucydides in The Peloponnesian War speaks of Athenian prisoners dying from "variation in the temperature" in the conditions they were kept. Athens itself suffered deadly droughts at least in the…
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The Worst Attempt To Defend Scientism I Ever Heard
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The Worst Attempt To Defend Scientism I Ever Heard

A public radio station hosts what they call "The Academic Minute", a name which signals you are in for sixty seconds of pain. This was so in a minute from…
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There Is No Such Thing As A Fair Coin
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There Is No Such Thing As A Fair Coin

Not only is there no such thing as a "fair" coin, there are no "fair" dice, either. Or "fair" anything. Which I shall prove to you. From Khan Academy, a…
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