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Celebrating 4th of July Makes You Republican: Harvard Profs Say So

This post originally ran 1 July 2011. The authors never responded to my offer. Democrats! I beseech thee! Do not let thy children fly the flag on the Glorious Fourth!…

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On That New Genes & Intelligence Paper

Niggling complaint number one. Big name journals are printing more telegraphic papers than ever before, leaving the meat to ill-edited, hard-to-navigate "supplementary" material. It's a way to get in under…

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To Put America First Is To Put Our Planet’s Climate First — With Critical Updates

Breitbart: To Put America First Is to Put Our Planet's Climate First. On June 2, 2017, in a Letter regarding US withdrawal from Paris climate agreement addressed to the MIT…

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Ross Douthat’s Preferential Option for Climate Catastrophe

Stream: Ross Douthat's Preferential Option for Climate Catastrophe. This article is in answer to Ross Douthat's, a.k.a. Lt Keefer's, column "Neither Hot Nor Cold on Climate" in which he impugned…

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On That Penis Paper Causes Global Warming Hoax

"The conceptual penis as a social construct" is a peer-reviewed paper by two fellows who used fake names, published in the journal Cogent Social Sciences. The real authors were Peter…

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Brain Damage Increases Religious Fundamentalism—Or Scientific Hubris?

Stream: Brain Damage Increases Religious Fundamentalism---Or Scientific Hubris? You didn't hear it coming. You didn't even feel it. Yet there you were on Hamburger Hill, 12 May 1969, praying you'd…

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Two Common Statistical Fallacies

Here are two fun fallacies, excerpted from a paper I wrote a couple of years ago in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. For more on this sort of…

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Clean Razors For Women Who Cut Themselves? What Happened to First Do No Harm?

Physicians long ago abandoned the Hippocratic Oath, for at least the reason that its call for physicians not to cause harm went against the modern acceptance, and even boasting, of…

The True Nolan on University of California Prof Tries To Save System From DIEingJuly 20, 2026
?I used to know a guy who didn't speak German. But that didn't stop him from sounding like he spoke…
spetzer86 on Believing In God Makes You Crave Potato Chips, Say AcademicsJuly 20, 2026
How are hash browns "ultra-processed"? They are essentially baked potatoes that were shredded and then fried until their collective exteriors…
Jethro Rusticus on Believing In God Makes You Crave Potato Chips, Say AcademicsJuly 20, 2026
Alternative interpretation of the data: Believing in God mKes you less depressed so you eat rather than starve yourself like…
John W. Garrett on The Equality ParadoxJuly 20, 2026
In the 20th century, it was quite easy to tell who the liars of Wall Street were. They all wore…
Hun on The Equality ParadoxJuly 20, 2026
This is prole drift. In the past, the ruling class consisted of people who had to fight or have some…