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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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How Failing To Butcher Your Child Became “Child Abuse”
Three females, which I believe is significant, took to the pages of the journal Pediatrics and argued that failing to have a surgeon mutilate your child (for a large fee)…
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Our Base Metaphors & Analogies Used In Science Have Outlived Their Usefulness: Part I
Metaphors and analogies exhaust themselves. No matter how useful they are as guides to thought, pushed too far they can loosen our grip on Reality or lead to stagnation, and…
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Proposed Scientist Law: Do Good Work Or No Money
One reason there is so much Bad Science, as I have said many times, is that there is too much science. Rather, too much activity in the name of science.…
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The Worst Attempt To Defend Scientism I Ever Heard
A public radio station hosts what they call "The Academic Minute", a name which signals you are in for sixty seconds of pain. This was so in a minute from…
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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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Trump Slashing The Cancerous “The Science” Bloat: Cut Cut Cut!
My joy is great. And growing: I responded on Twitter (follow me): "You might not know it, but this is a MAJOR VICTORY of outstanding proportions. Overhead is what fed…
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The Lesson Scientists Never Learn
Since it is a slow week, I was thinking about variations on Rupert Sheldrake's idea of morphic resonance, and how these might apply to an Aristotelian philosophy of nature. You…
