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How I Became A Renegade Scientist
This old picture of myself and a fellow outlaw is given as proof of my deep anti-social propensities. A friend of mine, long ago, would sit and listen to George…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Sacraments Still Count From Bad Priests
Previous post. We took last week off, given most people were (correctly) away from their computers. THAT THE SACRAMENTS CAN BE DISPENSED BY EVIL MINISTERS 1 From what we have…
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How Will You Know If Your Black Doctor Specializes In Diversity?
Regular readers know that because I have been working with doctors for twenty-some years, I often joke the best medical advice I can give is "Do not get sick." That…
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With Painted Nails, Toxic Femininity Squeezes Science
You and I, dear reader, have seen scores of lousy papers in Nature, and its subsidiary journals, over the years. The proportion of these science stink bombs is increasing, as…
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Why The Regime Insists Party Members Lie
Stay with me on this story. It's not big in itself, but telling. So a lefty politician is running for mayor in the Taiwan city of Taoyuan. He belongs to…
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Top Scientists Plead For Someone To Calculate The Probability Of The End Of The World
Here's how the AP climate doom article starts: Experts are ignoring the worst possible climate change catastrophic scenarios, including collapse of society or the potential extinction of humans, however unlikely,…
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The MIT Dahn Yoga Brain Respiration Experiment: How Belief In Failed Theories Persists
This article began as a series beginning 3 January 2009. I thought it well to revisit it as an example of how to investigate controversial Science. Clever readers will notice…
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How Many People Are Dying & Of What These Days
Been a long while since we updated the coronadoom numbers. The big reason for our tardiness is the CDC is always late in reporting numbers, by at least eight weeks,…