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Summary Against Modern Thought: Souls Survive The Body: Plan Accordingly

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. Once again,…

Culture 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…

Philosophy 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…

Book 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.…

Statistics

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…

Culture

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…

Philosophy 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!…

Culture

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…

Neil Jordan on Class 79: Time Series ExampleFebruary 20, 2026
Does the passage of time cause ice, or does ice cause the passage of time? Mystical statistical court of appeals…
Johnno on The Importance Of Not Making DecisionsFebruary 19, 2026
But Briggs... we pay people to make decisions on our behalf... Government exists, and it MUST do SOMETHING!!! What are…
Johnno on AI Is Driving Many Crazy: Our Latest PanicFebruary 19, 2026
BRIGGS YOU FOOL OF ARTIFICIALITY! Aye Eye exists for one reason and ONE REASON ONLY! To INCREASE Shareholder Value! If…
JH on The Importance Of Not Making DecisionsFebruary 19, 2026
Maybe you mean “knowledge” instead of “belief.” When my daughter was in ninth grade, I asked her about evidence for…
gareth on AI Is Driving Many Crazy: Our Latest PanicFebruary 19, 2026
Yes "AI" is just computer models. Better - in the sense of more competent in tasks than before. This does…