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Climate Change Now Causes People To Become Angry At LGBTQWERTies
Let's you and I play a little game. I'm going to give you an out-of-context sentence, and you see if you can guess that context. The answer is given below,…
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On Experts, The Dutch Nitrogen “Crisis”, Coronadoom & More! — Podcast
Trish Wood had me on her TNT Radio program on Saturday afternoon. We spoke of the Dutch nitrogen "crisis", global warming (now called "climate change"), the coronadoom, Experts and our…
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How Expertism & The Woke Spreads In Science
The New England Journal of Medicine isn't exactly what its name indicates. It does tend to concentrate on publishing articles on various aspects of medicine. But it also engages in…
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Elena Kagan’s Blind Love Of The Expertocracy: SCOTUS Slaps The EPA
SCOTUS ruled 6-3 that, in effect, without Congressional authorization, the EPA does not have the power to regulate carbon dioxide. Justice Elena Kagan dissented. Kagan opened her dissent thus (whole…
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The Mann Act: Banning All Fossil Fuels Immediately To Save The Planet
I don't want us to make too much of the individual behind the brief confession we're about to dissect, because if it wasn't him leading Team Irrationality, it would be…
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In Which We Answer The Pressing Question: Is Science Growing Stupider?
I was asked this question the other day: "Is science becoming stupider?" I was forced to answer this way: "Boy, howdy! Science will be lucky to reach stupid the end…
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How To Generate Massive Scientific Over-Certainty With These Four Simple Tricks
Update This must be more difficult than I thought, judging by lack of questions or comments. If you do not understand, ask. Here is a picture of what they are…
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Debunking Prebunking & Other Disinformation Scams
An article in Psychology Today, a deeply earnest and condemnatory article on disinformation and the brave efforts to "fight" it using "prebunking", contains the following sentence: "Every day around 9…