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Why This Weird Fetish Over Blacks?
Britain announced that the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square will be graced with this sculpture: It is, according to one story, a "bronze and blue homage to a metropolitan woman…
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Does Quantum Mechanics Speak To Theology? — Guest Post by Bob Kurland
“I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.” Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize winner for his research on quantum electrodynamics INTRODUCTION Seventy years ago when I first heard…
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AI Needs To Feed On Fresh Meat, Or It Dies
In Asimov's original Foundation, a novel set amidst a fading and decaying Empire, one saturated in hubris and self-esteem, we meet Lord Dorwin, a celebrated scholar from the Galactic Empire,…
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Broken Science Epistemological Camp Report
There was another Broken Science event this past weekend in the Phoenix area. Yours Truly was there. I gather the videos will be on line at some point, at the…
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Only A Bare Majority Of Scientists Believe In Sexual Reproduction
So the Brit paper The Telegraph had the idea of polling 200 scientists at British universities and asking whether or not they were science deniers. Sit down, dear reader. I…
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Why Attempts To Control Opinion Cause Opinion To Diverge
From Mars, John Carter reports in a wonderful essay discussing the Regime's attempts at manipulation says this: People don’t like being gaslit. The psychological techniques used by salesmen, con men,…
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Euro-Chemophobia And The Liquidation Of Agriculture — Guest Post by Jaap Hanekamp
Introduction The European Commision came up with another grand plan titled Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the sustainable use of plant protection products…
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What Parts Of Reality Does Science Describe, And Which Parts Are Merely Constructs?
A rose would not smell as sweet if it was called, as it likely is called in German, a sourbloodpetal. Or whatever. Naming things, getting the good names for things,…