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You, Dear Reader, Are An Extremist
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You, Dear Reader, Are An Extremist

We live in the Golden Age of Comedy. Need proof? Somebody said this imagery (embiggened one here) was like Hitler and Stalin had a baby. This could happen, too, because…
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Mathematics & The Imposing Your Beliefs Fallacy
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Mathematics & The Imposing Your Beliefs Fallacy

I blush as I write the truism that it is possible, given obvious reasons, that anybody anywhere might discover or hit upon a mathematical truth. Any body. Even NPR listeners.…
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New Scientific AI Computer Model Shows Experts Should Be Launched Into Space
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New Scientific AI Computer Model Shows Experts Should Be Launched Into Space

Two exciting new models have been released. One says the vaccinated should fear the unvaccinated. The second, a new scientific Artificial Intelligence computer mathematical model, has concluded Experts should be…
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Class 30: Hypothesis Testing Stinks I
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Class 30: Hypothesis Testing Stinks I

Today the math, which you don't strictly need if you can't calculate, behind how to think about Research Shows headlines and papers. This will be an invaluable exercise. You must…
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Efforts At Officially Defining Scientific Disinformation Continue
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Efforts At Officially Defining Scientific Disinformation Continue

Phrases like scientifically valid, the late great philosopher David Stove taught us, signal distress. A writer wants to say valid, a strength word, but somehow can't bring himself to this…
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Chinese Experts & Zero Covid “Solutions”
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Chinese Experts & Zero Covid “Solutions”

Watch this: https://twitter.com/selinawangtv/status/1541655113668132864 China is beloved by our intellectual class because it is believed that intellectuals rule in China, and intellectuals want to rule here, too. No sooner than does…
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The Great Climate Anxiety Grift
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The Great Climate Anxiety Grift

I, dear reader, am not a climate denier. I do not deny there is a climate. Some do: even many, given the popularity of the phrase. Further---and this follows logically---I…
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Communism Doesn’t Go Away Until Egalitarianism Dies: The Works of David Stove 3
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Communism Doesn’t Go Away Until Egalitarianism Dies: The Works of David Stove 3

We at last meet Francois Babeuf, the impetus behind Stove's first essay in his book On Enlightenment. Our story picks up just after The Terror---i.e., the inevitable point in every…
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  1. Phil R on Reader Opinion Requested: What Science Do You Find Sketchy, Exaggerated Or Wrong?July 14, 2025

    I'm neither a mathematician or a statistician, although I have a degree in science (geology) and regularly work with numbers…

  2. The True Nolan on Reader Opinion Requested: What Science Do You Find Sketchy, Exaggerated Or Wrong?July 14, 2025

    "Political science" comes to mind as an illustrative fraud. After decades of watching, I think the entire field can be…

  3. Dan D. on Reader Opinion Requested: What Science Do You Find Sketchy, Exaggerated Or Wrong?July 14, 2025

    It all started with that sloped forehead, Bill Nye. He diffused science into a maelstrom of wackiness. Now we have…

  4. Ralph Mertesdorf on Reader Opinion Requested: What Science Do You Find Sketchy, Exaggerated Or Wrong?July 14, 2025

    Bad science is only a symptom of the stupidity (much of it willful) of the masses. Treat symptoms not causes.…

  5. Zundfolge on Reader Opinion Requested: What Science Do You Find Sketchy, Exaggerated Or Wrong?July 14, 2025

    Social constructionism. Almost as obviously BS as man caused, catastrophic climate change.

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