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Mandating Too Many Women In Science
Too many of the big stories in our fading empire have to do with the destructive caustic leveling effects of egalitarianism. The Faith of the Enlightenment. Equality is the false…
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Sex With Dogs & Other Critters Back In Vogue, Thanks To Academic Peter Singer
Very long time readers will know that we warned that the creation of the notion of "sexual orientation", and the criminalizing of "discrimination" against "sexual orientations", logically implied that all…
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Decolonizing Science: Every Decolonizer Is A Liar
Every person who says they want to decolonize science, or math, or medicine, or whatever, is a liar. They do not tell the truth. They do not want to decolonize…
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Physicist Discovers He Has No Free Will: Chooses To Write Book To Say He Cannot Make Choices
Robert Sapolsky, a Stanford academic, took decades---decades, he says---to conclude he does not have free will. He chose now as the time to tell us of his decades-long, fruitless search…
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Australian Feminists & Katharine Hayhoe Weep Over White Men Who Do Not Love “Climate Change”
Busy day at the Briggs compound, and I only have time to tell you, with regret, that the feminists are at it again. Turns out there is a journal, and…
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The Insularity Of Experts: Why You Don’t Matter
The BMJ, once a preeminent journal of medicine, which is to say, doctors talking to other doctors about which cure works for which disease, and which doesn't, has taken up…
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Experts want to take uteruses out of women and put them into men
To read today's article, it is helpful to recall that in the context of biology and medicine the prefix trans can always be translated by not a or just not.…
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The Great Grand Bluff Of Science
Everybody knows the story of the turtles. The earth is held up by four large elephants, some say, which stand on the shell of an enormous turtle. When asked what…