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Use The Tools The Left Created Against Them
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Use The Tools The Left Created Against Them

Because of events, I have postponed this week's Class until next Thursday. Many on the Right, very understandably, are calling for violence in the wake of the Charlie Kirk murder.…
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Funniest Thing To Happen In Science In Years
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Funniest Thing To Happen In Science In Years

We've all seen those videos in which hersterical (there is no misspelling) chubby women rant at their cellphone cameras in cars. They begin their fantasies slowly, saying single phrases after…
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Pray For The Downfall, Ruin, Confusion & Conversion Of The Doctors & Experts Causing Transanity
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Pray For The Downfall, Ruin, Confusion & Conversion Of The Doctors & Experts Causing Transanity

RFK, Jr: "When I was a kid, we had shooting clubs at our school." "There's never been a time in America, in the history of humanity, where people walk into…
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Deniers Refusing To Die From Climate Change Heat Waves
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Deniers Refusing To Die From Climate Change Heat Waves

The lurid headline! "Heatwave likely killed 263 people in London, study estimates". The "heatwave" was a small increase in daily temperatures experienced in the UK at the end of this…
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Research: Solar Activity Causes High Blood Pressure
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Research: Solar Activity Causes High Blood Pressure

In the Class, which I know all readers are dutifully following, bless you, I often cite Tyler Vigen's Spurious Correlations site. It is a glorious (growing) compendium of ridiculous results…
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Compulsory Moral Bioenhancement Should Be Covert Says Academic Who Says Ticks Should Be Genetically Modified To Stop You Eating Meat
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Compulsory Moral Bioenhancement Should Be Covert Says Academic Who Says Ticks Should Be Genetically Modified To Stop You Eating Meat

My heart soared like a hawk by the hundreds of supportive comments I got on Twitter from last week's story about two academics who want government to genetically modify ticks…
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Lying Increases Trust In Science, Says Academic
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Lying Increases Trust In Science, Says Academic

The title today is identical to the peer-reviewed paper of the same name in Theory and Society by BVE Hyde. Hyde begins: "This study begins by outlining the transparency paradox:…
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Lady Pilots Better Than Men, Says The Science
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Lady Pilots Better Than Men, Says The Science

What do you make of this headline? "Female pilots perform better under pressure, study finds". Story opens thusly: Female pilots may outperform their male counterparts in high-pressure flight situations, according…
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    As I have been saying for a couple of decades; science is dead (as a social institution) - but *medical*…

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