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Belief In “Spiritual Entities” Falls
Announcement Next week I am on vacation as I prepare for the Cultural Event of the year. There will be no new posts: there may be classic reposts. Here's a…
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Forecast: Massive Increase In “Climate Change” Propaganda On Its Way
Announcement Next week I am on vacation as I prepare for the Cultural Event of the year. There will be no new posts: there may be classic reposts. You have…
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Climate The Science Causes Blindness
The average daily temperature in Singapore is 88 degrees. Or, in barbarian units, 31. Every day of the year. Here's the headline: "Now scientists say climate change is making us…
Posted inStatistics
On Breaking Climate Records — And Not Panicking
Thucydides in The Peloponnesian War speaks of Athenian prisoners dying from "variation in the temperature" in the conditions they were kept. Athens itself suffered deadly droughts at least in the…
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(Yet Another) New Paper Proves There Is No Nitrogen “Crisis” In The Netherlands
There is in the Netherlands a concocted "nitrogen crisis", which has all the earmarks of a manufactured panic. I don't mean in the conspiratorial sense. I mean in the Expert-created…
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On Ford Restoring & Saving AM Radio
And now, since many are still vacationing, a subject perhaps only three in a hundred care about. AM radio. You might have heard that Ford was going to whack AM…
Posted inPhilosophy
How The Laws Of Physics Lie
The title is Nancy Cartwright's, from her book of the same name, and from an article which forms Chapter 3, "Do the Laws of Physics State the Facts?" No, she…
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The Less You Know About Climate, The More You Cry About Climate
Some things, the saying goes, are too good to check. Take the peer-reviewed paper "Environmental knowledge is inversely associated with climate change anxiety" by Hannes Zacher and Cort W. Rudolph…