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How to Spot Fallacies – Podcast
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How to Spot Fallacies – Podcast

Last week I was interviewed by Pat Coffin on his show about Everything You Believe Is Wrong. Best part: very little mention of coronadoom. We are all sick sick sick…
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Update: Joe Rogan Flap Proves That If There Is Dis- and Misinformation, There Must Be A Ministry Of Truth
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Update: Joe Rogan Flap Proves That If There Is Dis- and Misinformation, There Must Be A Ministry Of Truth

Update Don't miss update below, which confirms everything in this post. Let's today emphasize the rather obvious point that if there is such a thing as official disinformation and misinformation,…
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Why You Shouldn’t Trust Epidemiologists: Natural Gas & Elderly Deaths Edition
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Why You Shouldn’t Trust Epidemiologists: Natural Gas & Elderly Deaths Edition

I'm always on about Experts, which are credentialed trained individuals who support the regime, so I thought it well to show Experts in action. One way is through the use…
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Yuval Harari’s Homo Deus: Marketing The Materialist World View — Guest Post by Jaap Hanekamp
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Yuval Harari’s Homo Deus: Marketing The Materialist World View — Guest Post by Jaap Hanekamp

Reading your typical book is like sitting on the grandstand of a racetrack. You see the race cars whizzing by, and you sort of feel the excitement of the race,…
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Celebrity Scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson Speaks — Excerpt From Everything You Believe Is Wrong
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Celebrity Scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson Speaks — Excerpt From Everything You Believe Is Wrong

This excerpt comes in Chapter 20, Science. First comes the Science Is Self-Correcting Fallacy, followed by the My Grant Was Funded Therefore My Theory Is True Fallacy, which is a…
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There Was No Panic In The Similar 1957-58 Pandemic; But Panic Galore For Coronadoom
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There Was No Panic In The Similar 1957-58 Pandemic; But Panic Galore For Coronadoom

There is much fun contrasting earlier approaches to pandemics and our Great Global Panic, now entering it's third---and final?---year. Let's take the 1957-1958 Asian (the novel H2N2) flu, the worst…
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Celebrating The Court’s Common Sense — And Lamenting Its Mistake
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Celebrating The Court’s Common Sense — And Lamenting Its Mistake

The OSHA opinion is here: the "Health" opinion is here. We earlier went through the Fifth Circuit quashing the OSHA mandate. The Court ruled twice yesterday. Once on the OSHA…
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Science Is Not The Answer: Should We Coerce Covid Drugs Because Science?
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Science Is Not The Answer: Should We Coerce Covid Drugs Because Science?

I have been asked by several, several times, to start a Substack. I have no idea why clicking on a Substack article is different than clicking here. But this might…
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  1. Briggs on Class 70: Most Claims Of “Controlled For” Are Wrong: The Right WayNovember 8, 2025

    Darin, There is no interval around a probability (with esoteric exceptions not of interest to us). All your evidence is…

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    I'm struggling to extrapolate this to the case when the thing I'm estimating is a probability. Let's say I observe…

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    I didn't come here for ~two months. Then I come back and ... *shit's gotten weird, son.* o.O At least…

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    Cheers from Florida, land of the ugly beasts known as womanatees. Meritocracy is now Ancient Herstory. Sheesh.

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    […] Illustrated” once determined that their cover is a JINX 37% of the time.  So about two out of every five…

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