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Register Your Predictions For 2024!
My Dear Friends and Despised Enemies, Happy New Year. As has been our tradition these many years, it’s time to register our predictions for the coming year. We looked at…
Posted inFun
How Did We Do In Our 2023 Predictions? Lousy
As usual, we had many predictions for 2023, too many to list them all. As before, I’ll only highlight the best, or worst, or funniest forecast every entrant gave. For…
Posted inBook review Culture
How Our Dictator Arrives: Surfing On A Wave Of Paperwork — Review of the Forgotten ‘The Law of Longer Life’ by Parkinson & Le Compte
The list of authors who have theories on how civilizations end is not small: Ibn Kaldun, Spengler, Toynbee, Strauss and Howe, Turchin, Glubb all stress that civilizations have existed but…
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Abortion Is Only The Symptom: Here Is The Disease
Was listening to the radio and the propagandist said something like, "Ohio voters enshrined the right to abortion in the state's Constitution..." They never do hear themselves, do they. Enshrined.…
Posted inStatistics
The Field Of Statistics Is Doomed — Unless It Abandons Testing & Parameter-Based Analysis
The first part of this article also appears at the Broken Science Initiative. Go there to read it, too, and many other good ones by other authors. We already saw…
Posted inStatistics
What Is a Model of a Model of a Model? “Climate Change”!
One of our main themes is Uncertainty. In short, there is not enough of it, especially in Science. Which is to say, there is a surfeit of certainty. We drown…
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Shifty Unscrupulous Sanctimonious Judge Sentences Douglas Mackey To 7 Months Prison For Making Anti-Regime Jokes
Here it is. The "crime" which landed Douglas "Ricky Vaughn" Mackey, who ran a Twitter account that was well known and obviously parody, to seven months in prison. Seven months…
Posted inPhilosophy
Science As Salvation?
Say there, sisters and brothers. Ever have a "peak" experience? If you know what I mean. While engaged with Science, that is. You did? Then you might of lost track…