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Stream: Fake News of the Decade? Or, Does Russia Rule The World?
This is posting here a day late, because I had already promised the Vox Day post yesterday. Yet there is still some fun to be had at the Stream: Is…
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Uncertainty Discussed At Vox Popoli
Vox Day kindly reprinted the review of Uncertainty by Jayne at the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. Vox also has a copy of the book himself and there may…
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Predictions For 2017—Register Yours Today!
Once more unto the breach! We did well last year, but we had the advantage of a neat unambiguous set of predictions all could make, i.e. the United States primaries…
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How’d We Do On Our 2016 Predictions?
This was an interesting year because we had a general dichotmous proposition of interest to many; or rather, two. Who would win the (Republican) primary and who would win the…
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The Politicization Of Science Organizations: The Firing Of Michael Lubell
What might pass for a small item reveals much about the state of science, and in particular about science organizations. The stately American Physical Society, a political-scientific, or scientific-political, or…
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“Media Powerhouses Don’t Quite Get Religion.”
Some fellow named Dean Baquet, New York Times Executive Editor, was holding forth about the election on your tax-dollar-supported NPR (Slogan: You have to pay, but you have no say),…
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Science Asks: Why Are Angry Atheists Annoying?
What's more annoying than an atheist who harangues passersby about "rationality"? Easy answer: a scientist who announces a discovery about human behavior that was known by everybody since Adam. Our…
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In Which I’m Interviewed About Trump’s Victory & Free Speech
An "aspiring freelance journalist", one Spencer Folkins, "decided to conduct a series of interviews with authors on what his victory means to them and writing as a whole." Here are…