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Is There “Psychic Unity” In Mankind?
Via Nick Land comes the link to the West Hunter blog, and the article Same Old. The entry is short: We now know ( from ancient DNA) that Bushmen split…
Posted inClass Statistics
Taleb’s Curious Views On Probability — Part III: Ergodicity & All That
Read Part I, Part II Ergodic in probability has a technical definition. Without going into mathematical details (which are fine except possibly when applied), a "sequence" is defined as a…
Posted inBook review Philosophy
The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions by David Berlinski
A modified version of this article ran 14 April 2008. There are a recent number of books seeking to either demonstrate, scientifically, that God does not exist, or to show…
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DDP: Quack Cures For What Doesn’t Ail Us, Part I
I'm at the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness meeting in No-History City, Louisiana. Here's Part I of (an earlier draft of) the speech I gave Saturday. Consider donating $1 for every…
Posted inPhilosophy
Should We Be Allowed To Euthanize Jerry Coyne?
Simplest way to do it is to ask Jerry to come over behind the barn for a little "digging party." Tell him to bring a shovel. We'll say the hole…
Posted inStatistics
In Celebration of Cult of Diversity, Google Sacrifices Employee
Stream: In Celebration of Cult of Diversity, Google Sacrifices Employee Walk into Google's headquarter's and say, "Diversity is our strength." Know what would happen? A thousand identical unquestioning strident voices…
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The Theory of Diversity Explained
Thanks to Google we are reminded that Diversity is the dumbest idea in the West, bar none. Even communism, even atheism, makes more sense. Diversity is our weakness. Diversity, based…
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Austin Ruse’s ‘Fake Science: Exposing the Left’s Skewed Statistics, Fuzzy Facts, and Dodgy Data’
Austin Ruse kindly sent me a copy of his new Fake Science: Exposing the Left's Skewed Statistics, Fuzzy Facts, and Dodgy Data, a book readers of this blog will take…