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Thou Shalt Not Seek The Wee P
Because some readers may think the crusade against the wee p is mine alone, sinner that I am, or that I somehow represent an obscure shady suspect intellectually insufficient movement,…
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Insanity & Doom Update XXXII
Item Chinese government official: No religion 'transcends nations' A Chinese government official who oversees religious affairs said Tuesday that government restrictions on bishop appointments are not a violation of religious…
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The Culture is Wrong, and The Church is Right: Zmirak’s New Book Reviewed
Today's post is at One Peter Five: The Culture is Wrong, and The Church is Right: Zmirak's New Book Reviewed. Scurry out and buy two copies of John "Bad Catholic"…
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Bayesian Theorists Were Little Better Than Cranks
I stole today's title from David Papineau's essay "Thomas Bayes and the crisis in science", which many readers sent in. When I was in grad school bad in the early…
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Second Annual WMBriggs.com Bad Science Award!
Announcement In the proud and rarely abused tradition of Honoring Important People, we present the Second Annual WMBriggs.com Bad Science Award! Please help us pass on the news of this…
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The Limitations And Usefulness Of IQ
That Smarts Everybody knows that some people are smarter than others, and that some are teachable and some not. Well, some people do deny these facts, believing that if everybody…
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Peter Thiel’s Reformation-University Comparison Isn’t So Good
From Breitbart. Technology giant Peter Thiel argued this week that American universities are as corrupt as the Catholic Church of 500 years ago. Speaking to a group of conservative students…
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Global Warming: Thirty Years Of Hype, Hysteria & Hullabaloo
In the late spring of 1988, Senator Tim Wirth from Colorado (guess his party) called the Weather Bureau and asked what historically was the hottest day of the year in…
