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The Democratization of Science Is A Bad Thing: Or, Why Bill Nye Perving Science Was Inevitable

https://twitter.com/ecigcaffeineboy/status/856388900159447040 It's Science! The democratization of any field of human knowledge is a bad thing; thus, the democratization of science is not something to celebrate but to mourn. By democratization…

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Coronavirus Update V — Madness Has Arrived

All the good stuff, caveats, code, and explanations are linked, some in Update III, and the most important in Update II, Update IV, and Bayes Theorem & Coronavirus, so go…

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James Lovelock’s Error-Making Capabilities Peak At 100

Happy Birthday to the old boy. Who really is a full century of years, God bless him. I happened upon a copy of the BBC's Science Focus in an airport…

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In A Democracy, Everything Is Political. Even Science.

Stream: On the Left, Bad Politics Leads to Bad Science (Insanity & Doom updates resume after Christmas.) "All I Want For Christmas Is Full Communism Now". Not I. It is…

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The Last Two Research Studies Ever

Bad news is that there won't be any news studies for us to pick on. With the two papers presented below, all scientific research has officially come to a close.…

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Science Retracts Paper That Claimed Black Babies Born Smaller Because Of Police Violence

See this peer-reviewed, but then-retracted, paper "Police violence and the health of black infants" by some person calling his- or herself Joscha Legewie? After it was peer reviewed by knowledgeable…

$Computers Finding Math Proofs Is Not A Good Idea$

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Computers Finding Math Proofs Is Not A Good Idea

It is probably obvious that whether a proposition is (necessarily) true is different than proving, in some formal system, that it is true. It is also clear that if you…

Culture

Corruption Of All Authority: An Interim Doom Report

"Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing." This is, as everybody knows, Conquest's Second Law. It is a true law, as all modern experience shows. But it…

James on Reader Opinion Requested: What Science Do You Find Sketchy, Exaggerated Or Wrong?July 16, 2025
The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis might be worthy of exploring for bad science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquatic_ape_hypothesis
Scott Locklin on Jung’s Synchronicity & CoincidenceJuly 16, 2025
There was a book on the correspondence between Jung and Wolfgang Pauli (who was a genius, but also an alcoholic…
Ralph Mertesdorf on Vegetarians Crave Power And Success More Than Meat Eaters Do, Study FindsJuly 16, 2025
I found another headline at that "Study Finds" site" "Many Texas Communities Are Dangerously Unprepared For Floods, And Lack Of…
Tars Tarkas on Vegetarians Crave Power And Success More Than Meat Eaters Do, Study FindsJuly 16, 2025
"39. She always wants to be the one who makes the decisions. She likes to be the leader." This is…
Brian (bulaoren) on Vegetarians Crave Power And Success More Than Meat Eaters Do, Study FindsJuly 16, 2025
Obviously, a vegetarian diet does not produce a feeling of satiation.