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Abortion Is Only The Symptom: Here Is The Disease

Was listening to the radio and the propagandist said something like, "Ohio voters enshrined the right to abortion in the state's Constitution..." They never do hear themselves, do they. Enshrined.…

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Quelling Violence In Terror States! The Return Of Dickman

Here is the opening sentence in the Abstract of a paper in the NEJM, as hilariously false as you are like to see these days: "Violence against women receives little…

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Researchers Tell Models To Say People Will Die Without Your Money

Here is how the political magazine Nature opened its article "25 million deaths: what could happen if the US ends global health funding: Models estimate the ginormous potential impact of…

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The Farcical Evangelical ‘Betrayal’ Argument Against Trump

This is a slow week, so I thought it would be amusing to look at a ham-fisted campaign the left is running to discourage Christian Trump voters. (As I was…

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Dickman Cries “Rape!”: On The Bizarre New Rape-Pregnancy Paper

You and I, dear reader, have looked at a lot of bad science over the years. Some science was bad because of the stank of woke, some because of fractured…

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The Decline Of Western Christianity: Gradually Then Suddenly

Here's a graph which I entitle Gradually Then Suddenly (ladies, try not to swoon over my astonishing artistic gifts): If you're a classicist you might prefer the title Motus In…

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Google Knew Exactly What They Were Doing: Models Only Do What They Are Told

So Google tried to get away with its "AI" named Gemini, which is to say its hard-coded dumb (in the medical sense) model named Gemini, substituting blacks and the occasional…

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See You On The Other Side

Half the country will be unhappy late tonight. Or in a few days, when the last of the new votes are "discovered". Yet be of good cheer! This was all…

Briggs on Class 49: Relevance & Importance Of Evidence In ModelsMay 9, 2025
JH, My IQ is simplicity itself to estimate. I have no IQ. Pick up any stats books and look under…
JH on Class 49: Relevance & Importance Of Evidence In ModelsMay 9, 2025
Is there evidence that people believe probabilities, parameters, or mathematical objects exist physically in nature? The fact that mathematicians use…
JH on Class 49: Relevance & Importance Of Evidence In ModelsMay 9, 2025
Relevance is made more difficult when Y is allowed to vary, but the underlying idea is the same. Probability offers…
Tim on Class 49: Relevance & Importance Of Evidence In ModelsMay 8, 2025
What are you playing at, Briggs? Some high-falutin' model equation junk that'll get twisted by politicians in the end anyway?…
Milton Hathaway on AI Cannot Hallucinate Nor LieMay 8, 2025
I have been making heavy use of the more well-known LLMs lately. I use them almost exclusively as "regurgitation engines",…