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The Statistics Of Stopping Power
It is a slow week, and a week of Thanks, so let's spend our time with some fun things. Like a fascinating study by Greg Ellifritz on "An Alternate Look…
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Refereeing Models Which Ask Us To “Follow The Science!”
I'm stealing this from Spectator, which has done science right. It shows the UK's SAGE Expert models for covid. In each case, the gray and others colors are the model…
Posted inBook review Culture
How Our Dictator Arrives: Surfing On A Wave Of Paperwork — Review of the Forgotten ‘The Law of Longer Life’ by Parkinson & Le Compte
The list of authors who have theories on how civilizations end is not small: Ibn Kaldun, Spengler, Toynbee, Strauss and Howe, Turchin, Glubb all stress that civilizations have existed but…
Posted inCulture Philosophy
Sex With Dogs & Other Critters Back In Vogue, Thanks To Academic Peter Singer
Very long time readers will know that we warned that the creation of the notion of "sexual orientation", and the criminalizing of "discrimination" against "sexual orientations", logically implied that all…
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A Brief History Of The Palestine Grievance — Comments by the Late Glubb Pasha
We begin with an excerpt from the short book The Middle East Crisis: A Personal Interpretation by Glubb Pasha, published late in 1967. If you have any interest in the…
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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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Decolonizing Science: Every Decolonizer Is A Liar
Every person who says they want to decolonize science, or math, or medicine, or whatever, is a liar. They do not tell the truth. They do not want to decolonize…
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Men, Don’t Fight For The Regime
News last week: "JUST IN - German Defence Minister sees danger of war in Europe; the military and society 'must become fit for war,' Pistorius told ZDF." The Regime is…