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More On Why Falsifiability Is Not Interesting
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More On Why Falsifiability Is Not Interesting

Take a look-see at this science pic: This is the output from some model, the nature of which is not especially interesting, and the accompanying observations. In other words, predictions…
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How “The Science” Is Created By Not Understanding Belief & Decision Are Not Uncertainty & Probability
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How “The Science” Is Created By Not Understanding Belief & Decision Are Not Uncertainty & Probability

Stick with me on this not-so-easy subject, because I'm going to reveal a trick used to make you "Follow the Science!" Belief is an act. Uncertainty is a state. Decision…
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Systemic Vice Signaling Destroying Science: Fewer Animals Found In Cities, Hence “Racism”
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Systemic Vice Signaling Destroying Science: Fewer Animals Found In Cities, Hence “Racism”

The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science used to be a prestigious journal. And still is. Getting a paper in PNAS is a mark of approval from the scientific…
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Let Go Your Wee P! — Reader Help Requested
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Let Go Your Wee P! — Reader Help Requested

I flatter myself that this is the best general thing I have written to explain why you must never, not ever, use a p-value, hypothesis test, "significance", Bayes value, or…
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The Multiverse Hides The Problem It Was Supposed To Solve, And Calls It Solved
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The Multiverse Hides The Problem It Was Supposed To Solve, And Calls It Solved

Let's end the review of Sabine Hossenfelder's book. We did some already: Emergence, Entropy, and Many Worlds. With this post, we'll have covered the most interesting topics. Old Hoss, and…
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Best Defense When The Not-So-Secret Police Use AI To Claim You Are The Anonymous Tweeter
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Best Defense When The Not-So-Secret Police Use AI To Claim You Are The Anonymous Tweeter

I want you to memorize something important. Never forget it. Ready? Artificial "intelligence", or AI, is just statistical modeling. (Regular readers already knew this.) Here's something else to know. Some…
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The Great Grand Bluff Of Science
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The Great Grand Bluff Of Science

Everybody knows the story of the turtles. The earth is held up by four large elephants, some say, which stand on the shell of an enormous turtle. When asked what…
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Why “The Science” Settled On “Carbon”
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Why “The Science” Settled On “Carbon”

The answer to the question Why "The Science" Settled On "Carbon" is easy. The Science settled on "carbon" because it's easy. See? Easy is the answer, as promised. Now that…
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  1. Steve on The If I Were God Fallacy & EvolutionJuly 29, 2025

    OK, but, for example, what denominations forget God is the First Cause? Most of the high church denominations say every…

  2. Brad Tittle on The If I Were God Fallacy & EvolutionJuly 29, 2025

    My point of view is always wrong. Everyone elses point of view is always correct in their reference frame. How…

  3. Chaeremon on The If I Were God Fallacy & EvolutionJuly 29, 2025

    evolution possesses a [divine, what else] intelligence through which instinct and subsequently [evolutionary! what else] rationality ar|wer|e invented.

  4. Briggs on The If I Were God Fallacy & EvolutionJuly 29, 2025

    All, From Owen Chadwick's The Reformation (p. 62): "At the Diet of Speyer in 1529 the minority of princes favourable…

  5. Briggs on The If I Were God Fallacy & EvolutionJuly 29, 2025

    Steve, Protesting Christians is the preferred term. And nowhere do I insist "All Protesting Christian believe X".

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