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Woke Science: Diversity In Physics
"Physics is the least diverse of the sciences," begins our article, a signal that we start in the depths, and have no choice but to begin the labor of digging…
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Another AI Exaggeration: It Can Say Why There Is Religious Conflict
Dear reader, though you won't believe it, there is such a thing as the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. When you search its name, Google shows you this:…
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Poor Richard Carrier Goes On The Offensive
Six years ago I wrote a small, daily piece (Bayes Theorem Proves Jesus Existed And Didn't Exist) about the use of probability in proving or disproving the existence of God.…
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This Week In Doom — It-Must-Be-Progressed Edition
Item Scientific communism "I Survived Communism -- Are You Ready For Your Turn?" By Zuzana Janosova Den Boer "It was scientifically proven that communism is the only social-economic system providing…
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Next Time Somebody Asks You “What’s the Probability of X” Say This — Crucial Update!
Next time somebody asks you "What's the Probability of X", where X is any proposition, say this: there is no such probability. It doesn't exist. "Briggs, what's the probability of…
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Another Example Proving Academia Is Worse Than You Thought
This is a slow week, so I do not now want to continue the discussion of what the best replacement of academia is. That is needs replacing I take as…
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Black Coffee Drinkers Are Sadistic Psychos: It’s Science!
Headline New study says you might be a psychopath if you like black coffee A new study from the University of Innsbruck in Austria says that people who drink their…
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Insanity & Doom Update XLII — With Homework Assigned!
Item Diversity Is Not a Threat: Study Links Low Intelligence to Fear of Gay Lifestyle A new study from researchers at University of Queensland, Australia, has identified that those with…
