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What Scientists Know That Ain’t So
"It's not what we don't know that prevents us from succeeding; it's what we know that just ain't so that is our greatest obstacle." I've seen versions of that quote…
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First Look At The FBI Crime Stats For 2022: I Don’t Even Have To Explain Per Capita
The FBI released its crime report for 2022, and I thought it instructive for us to examine homicide numbers. Homicides from 1985--2022. Now it is, or should be, obvious that…
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New Paper Claiming Biological Sex A Fiction Has Normie Academics Pretending To Be Shocked
A new peer-reviewed paper is making normie, which is to say not fully woke, academics to say "Yikes!". The existence of this paper, as you'll see, adds another shovelful of…
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Over-Certainties In Global Estimates of Vaccine Efficacy
How can you tell if a vaccine for a bug is effective? It's not so easy; indeed, it can be excruciatingly difficult. At the individual person level you'd need to…
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The Time Is Now For It To Be Now. Again.
What's Up? Time for our biannual update, dear readers. My forays into this new thing called "video" have, at long last, begun. It took me so long because I do…
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Experts: Everybody In Europe Died From Breathing Toxic Air
A toxin, as the redoubtable reader undoubtedly knows, is a poison. And a poison, says Mr Webster, is that which causes "morbid, noxious, or deadly effects". People who ingest or…
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All—As In All—Of The “Climate Change Made This Event More Likely” Claims Are False
Here's a typical recent propaganda headline: "Climate change made Libya flooding 50 times more likely: Report." This is not so. Here's another recent one from PBS: "Climate change made global…
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Apple Threatens World Destruction! “It is our aim to permanently remove carbon from the atmosphere”
I was asked to look at this video promoted by the slob---no, really: he's a slob; not that it's his worst sin---who runs Apple. Unfortunately, some of you will have…