Posted inCulture Philosophy
Is Homosexuality A Disability?
Guy's walking along, innocent like, when, lo, he has his "nuts bit off by a Laplander". Perhaps needless to say, his young wife is distressed over the incident. What goes…
Posted inPhilosophy Statistics
The New Religion Of Dataism (Another Version Of Man-As-God)
Dataism is the word coined by Yuval Noah Harari in his essay for an optimistic, practical implementation of Scientism. Just as divine authority was legitimised by religious mythologies, and human…
Posted inBook review Statistics
‘Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics’ Reviewed Again
The following review appeared in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (pdf). Jane Orient is the lead doc at Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, publishers of the journal.…
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Bad Science Used to Block Americans’ Access to Life-Saving Technology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbf_TXqEY-Y Our friend Jane Orient, lead doc at Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, put out the release below, in which she very kindly mentions Yours Truly. The AAPS runs…
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Why Americans Left Christianity And Became Nones
The title of the Pew report which we'll discuss is "Why America's 'nones' left religion behind", though, as you can see, I modified it. For good reason. The original Pew…
Posted inPhilosophy SAMT
Summary Against Modern Thought: There Is Free Will
See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. At last!…
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Pope: If I Speak Of Islamic Violence, I Must Speak Of Catholic Violence
The holy Koran says (sura 2 at 191) "And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution is…
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The Hierarchy Of Models: From Causal (Best) To Statistical (Worst)
There is a hierarchy of models in the sense they offer insight into the thing modeled. The order of importance is: causal, deterministic, probabilistic, statistical. Most models use mixtures of…