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Our Coming Murder & Crime Wave
In 2020, we saw a large increase in murders. Homicides were up 30% from 2019, an increase which is called "historic". "[G]un assault and aggravated assault rates climbed 8 percent…
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The Coming Spiritual Trial — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
Well, that didn’t take long, did it? In just over four months, we have seen four years of progress, halting as it was, evaporate into thin air. Oil, gas, coal.…
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Random Means Unknown Cause — And Nothing More
I've used this gimmick many times, so regular readers, please, shhh. I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 4. What is it? To you the number is random, because…
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If All Models Only Say What They’re Told To Say, Can We Learn From Them? Mask Model Example
From reader Goncalo Dias comes this excellent question: I have just sat through your seminar on (super-)models. [LINK] I have a quick question: if you assume some fluid mechanical properties…
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Fat Anorexics; Knife-Happy Doctors; Weak Women Warriors; More! — Return Of The Week In Doom
Due to underwhelming demand...the temporary return of The Week In Doom. I have a backlog of doomable material. Each ITEM is post-worthy, but the rate of increase in new items…
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Institutionalized Scientists Angry Amateurs Showing Them Up, Demand They Be Stopped
Crystal Lee of MIT---bio: "I work broadly on topics related to the social and political dimensions of computing, data visualization, and disability. I also conduct ethnographic and computational research on…
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What Sound Does A Duck Make, Doc, When It Calls Men Women?
The story is that a still-sane med student conducted an anonymous interview about how gender madness, a.k.a. gender fiction, a.k.a. emasculated masculinity, a.k.a. funked-up femininity, and so on, has cucked…
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Universities Are Dead: Let’s Bury Their Corpses & Begin Anew
The purposes of a university are to pass on knowledge and to provide a refuge in which to conduct scholarship. That's it, and nothing more. Nowadays scholarship is called "research",…