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The Week In Doom — Eugenics Panic Edition

Item Talking about penises isn't helping the conversation. https://twitter.com/JammersMinde/status/1229439480064610308 Don't miss the point where she said "A child isn't born with a sex." Colin Wright, a scientist and man of…

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Stream: Eugenics Will Cure Global Warming

Today's---part one? see below---post is at the Stream: "Academic Calls for a Return to Eugenics (to Battle Global Warming)". The Big Push on global warming has begun. At the recent…

Culture Philosophy

The Return Of Eugenics

Today's article is at Crisis Magazine. The academy is no longer satisfied with raising consciousness. Progress has been too slow, you see. Something quicker has been judged necessary lest Utopia…

Culture Philosophy

Are There Any Arguments Against Eugenics Left?

Most, or even all, progressives say they are against eugenics. Yet most, or all, progressives were against the recent Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act which would have outlawed sex-selective abortions in these…

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The Dysgenics Of IVF

You know IVF. In which a woman has eggs removed from her body, chucks them in with the pork chops in the freezer, and hopefully dated, where I use hopefully,…

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Little Nate’s Plan To Save The World

Guffaw is not a word met on the street, but is seen in books and other literary matter, and until last week I had never heard anybody say it. I…

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Over-Certainty Of Polygenic Scores

This is a revamped and updated classic post with new material. It first appeared on 6 February 2020. It's time to revisit this topic, as we'll see below. Polygenic scores…

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How The Enlightenment Led To Contraception (And Other Forms of Anti-Natal Behavior)

We continue our leisurely and in-depth study of the works of David Stove. We're still with his book On Enlightenment. This article is long, so if you're short of time,…

John Pate on Class 73: How To Tell If You Have Bad DiceDecember 6, 2025
The problem came when computers made it easy to plug numbers without you really knowing what you're doing. It became…
Rudolph Harrier on Class 73: How To Tell If You Have Bad DiceDecember 6, 2025
I think the problem is that many people want to have a consistent process above all else. They don't want…
John Pate on Class 73: How To Tell If You Have Bad DiceDecember 5, 2025
You would have been in your element Briggs. I was quite heavily into the statistics nonsense at the time due…
Briggs on Class 73: How To Tell If You Have Bad DiceDecember 5, 2025
John, Now that's very interesting. I would have loved to have heard that talk.
John Pate on Class 73: How To Tell If You Have Bad DiceDecember 5, 2025
This is why I laughed at the nonsense about Casinos using probability. All they care about is the House wins…