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Universities Are Expertocracies In Minature
We have been warning you for well over a decade that what happens at universities does not stay at universities. All of us laugh and marvel at the great idiocies,…
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One Book To Rule Them All: Everything You Believe Is Wrong
Everything You Believe Is Wrong will drop on 1 December. Three short weeks. Pre-order it, in paperback or e-book forms, now: Amazon paperback, Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble, Walmart (not…
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Science, Like The Internet, Was Too Good To Last: How Cancel Culture Happens
Anybody over thirty will remember the Wild West internet of the late 90s and oughts. You could say anything, see anything, do anything. It was great. It was a manly…
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Spartacus Speaks; Australian Head Knocking; MI Bright Spot; Causes of Death; More! — Coronavirus Update XCIX
Last week, there was some good news. This week, it's mostly bad. I AM SPARTACUS I am not the Spartacus, but I am Spartacus. If you have seen the movie,…
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Case Study In Hersterical Effeminacy: Bad Times Are Coming
All have heard the ancient litany: hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. The wise know…
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Propaganda Masquerading As Climate Science
If you are ignorant in a field, such as I am in ancient Peruvian pottery, you must look to purported authorities to settle disputes that might arise or for guidance…
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Claiming To Be Able To Blame Weather Events On Global Warming
This is not a big story, but it's worth highlighting because of the pernicious effects of science journalism, which suffers from the same faults as political journalism. Emphasis on extremes,…
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Juneteenth, A Day In Which We Celebrate The Eternal Victim
So New Jersey unveiled a 700-pound (they themselves admitted missing the mark by a century of pounds) statue of career villain, porn actor, and all around thug George Floyd, who…