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Coronavirus Update VI — Calm Yourselves
All the good stuff, caveats, code, and explanations are linked, some in Update III, and the most important in Update II, Update IV, Update V, and Bayes Theorem & Coronavirus,…
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Case Study In Why Conservatism Will Continue To Fail
Conservatism, as we have long discussed, is dead. Though perhaps it doesn't seem that way, because its corpse is seen ambling about with a caring look on its decomposing face.…
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Brain Scientist Thinks Their Brains Are Out To Kill Them And Get Away With It
The peer-reviewed paper by Messrs Dor-Ziderman, Lutz, and Goldstein is in NeuroImage (the journal went with the hip no space) "Prediction-based neural mechanisms for shielding the self from existential threat".…
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Elite Occult Practices Becoming More Open: From The Georgia Guidestones To The Illuminati Ball
The mystery behind the Georgia Guidestones appears as if it will never be solved. The one man who might be able to provide some clues isn't talking, and at eighty-nine…
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Pipe Down — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
BREAKING NEWS FROM ALL MSM's: TRUMP LASHES OUT AGAINST EVERYONE! MEDIA ALLEGATIONS OF UNIVERSAL RACISM MUST BE TRUE, BECAUSE THE MEDIA HAVE SAID IT. ERGO, TRUMP IS THE UNIVERSAL RACIST.…
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When Does A Small Probability Mean Impossibility?
Question from reader Richard Stevens: A professional scientist, holding an MS in one of the hard sciences, addressed the argument that the probability of creating a protein or an enzyme…
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The Week In Doom — Leftist Violence Edition
Item The Treatment of Migrants Likely 'Meets the Definition of a Mass Atrocity' Children are suffering and dying. The fastest way to stop it is to make sure those responsible,…
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Post-Approval Drug Failures: More Reasons To Eliminate P-values & Parameter-Centric Methods
Some comments on the JAMA: Internal Medicine article "An International Perspective on Drugs for Cancer: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times" by Richard Lehman. Drugs increase fast, and…