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Global Warming Hanger-On Says Ends Justify The Means

A question from the new SAT in Reading Comprehension was leaked: "'The students rushed the platform to prevent the speaker from speaking.' Were these students, (A) progressives, or (B) conservatives?"…

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On UFOs, Salt Intake, And Heart Disease

Michael "State of Fear" Crichton once proposed that UFOs were responsible for global warming. Why not? After all, something caused that record amount of snow in Detroit yesterday. Don't get…

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Probabilities Aren’t Decisions

The title says it all. But its presence implies, and it is true, that people often mistake the two. If you decide to bet fifty bucks the USA beats Germany,…

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Prosecute Global Warming Heretics. Update 2: Kill, Nuremberg Them, Too!

Prosecute the heretics! is the new cry from the high priests of global warming. Climate "deniers", they say, are no better than mobsters, good fellas who are extorting the climate,…

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How The IPCC Buried Evidence Showing Good News About Global Warming

Here is the Executive Summary from our friends Marcel Crok and Nicholas Lewis in their report A Sensitive Matter which is available at the Global Warming Policy Foundation (preprinted by…

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Party’s Over, Baby: The Twilight of Abundance Reviewed

The Twilight of Abundance: Why Life in the 21st Century Will Be Nasty, Brutish, and Short by David Archibald, visiting Fellow Institute of World Politics. I am a curmudgeon, which…

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Another Fool Calls For My Arrest: Or, Adam Weinstein Slips A Nut

Another eek-screeching scrawny-brained bug-witted pretty-boy addled cancerous ferret has called for my arrest. My crime? Sanity. Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein), writing at a place with the puerile name of "Gawker"---come to…

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Global Warming Creating Anxious Fish

Fish the world over are rubbing their fins together and fretting over news of climate change. One day they are told earnestly that the world's oceans are going to boil…

NLR on AI Cannot Hallucinate Nor LieMay 5, 2025
Things now don't look anything like people predicted they would 30 years ago. They didn't actually know what would happen.…
hudbwu on Researchers Tell Models To Say People Will Die Without Your MoneyMay 5, 2025
> Before that, I leave it as homework to note the use of a popular marketing phrase in the Abstract…
Chaeremon on AI Cannot Hallucinate Nor LieMay 5, 2025
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters (top parrot of "sensations" narrated by CNN, Guardian, etc) https://slashdot.org/poll/3281/when-will-agi-be-achieved … Never 2698…
Cary Cotterman on AI Cannot Hallucinate Nor LieMay 5, 2025
A world in which the computer overlords metamorphose hot young women into gurning Buddhas is one I want no part…
Robert Arvanitis on AI Cannot Hallucinate Nor LieMay 5, 2025
Start with how we think. Take in sensations. Store as memories. Replay them in alternative experiments to imagine possible futures.…