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Stream: Hottest Yeah Evah
Stream: The Hottest Yeah Evah! Really? Or a yet another example of activism masquerading as science? Assume for a moment, as the press with triumphant glee is reporting, that 2016…
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Uncertainty Discussed At Vox Popoli
Vox Day kindly reprinted the review of Uncertainty by Jayne at the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. Vox also has a copy of the book himself and there may…
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Russia As Salvation Of The West: Part II — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
Read Part I. Let's get down to work. Let's back up a long way and see where the initial error was made in calculating the supposed real purpose of the…
Posted inPhilosophy SAMT
Summary Against Modern Thought: The Intellect Is Not A Temperament
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. We're still…
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I Get Complaints
From reader R: Hey! I like your posts on statistics. But your posts on marriage equality, gun violence, climate change, diversity etc. are incoherent rants. It sounds like you start…
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Muggings, Nuclear Devices, Probability & Decision
Somehow I ended up on the curious site LessWrong.com, directed by somebody with the nickname Yud (from Eliezer Yudkowsky). Odd isn't in it. Investigating it led me to Reddit and…
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There Is No Such Thing As The GOP — Guest Post by The Blonde Bombshell
There is no such thing as the GOP, in the sense of an opposite party to Democrats. And there hasn't been since Ronald Reagan left office. Reagan himself never was…
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One World Without Borders Would Lead To Tyranny
Hillary, in her own words, said "My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders". She said it, but it's not clear if she believes it.…