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The Unseen Bias In All Science
I picked a lousy (slow, pre-Fourth) day to post a criticism of "IQ" last week, and badly titled it "Test Your IQ With These Puzzles! (Not So Easy!)". Something like…
Posted inCulture
Universal Education Caused Managerialism
The original title was "A Difficult-To-Remove Cause Of The Managerial State ". I changed it. My title-writing skills stink. In a review of Auron MacIntyre's Total State: How Liberal Democracies…
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Lady Lawyers Become — Gasp! — Science Deniers
Two ladies, both involved in legal academia, have written an astonishing paper in the Journal of Criminology. They insist lawyers for the defense should be called "guilt deniers", and that…
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Case Study In Making Science Propaganda: Cooking Becomes Pollution
Major Headline! "That mouth-watering aroma of fresh food cooking? It may be degrading air quality". Story opens thus: It’s been known for years that cooking indoors can taint the air…
Posted inPhilosophy
The Many Troubles With Science: A Conversation With Jaap Hanekamp About Our Upcoming Book
The many troubles of science are these: Philosophy; Scientism; Utopianism; Catastrophism; Gnosticism; Faithlessness. My pal Jaap Hanekamp and I are writing a book on science, entitled---wait for it---Title Forthcoming. All…
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2,800 — And Growing — Scientists Butthurt Over Elon Musk Squeal To The Royal Society
Of all the glorious winning we have had this last month, this is my favorite by far. Some 3,000 squealing scientists signed a petition addressed to the Royal Society to…
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Why “Raise Awareness” & “Denier!”?
This paper, from 2013, is making the rounds again: "Meet the Money Behind The Climate Denial Movement" at, and I'm sure you'll believe it, the Smithsonian Magazine. There's nothing remarkable…
Posted inStatistics
Class 23: An Infinity Of Hypotheses! (Bayes)
This post is really for those adept at math, a necessary avenue to understand this subject entirely. Most will want to skip the video. BUT DO READ THE LECTURE. IT'S…
