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Draft Realist Catholic Climate Declaration: Please Share!
Here we are, friends. As promised, Draft 2 of the Realist Catholic Climate Declaration. Draft 1 is at the bottom, with a summary of critiques. The goal is to have…
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Corruption Of All Authority: An Interim Doom Report
"Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing." This is, as everybody knows, Conquest's Second Law. It is a true law, as all modern experience shows. But it…
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How To Do Predictive Statistics: Part X: Verification 1
We are finally at the most crucial part of the modeling process: proving if the damned thing works. Not "works" in the sense that we get good unobservable parameter estimates,…
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Everything Is Already In The Simulation
On Drudge a while back was linked the article "Pandemic 'could wipe out 900 million people,' experts warn" in some tabloid or sensationalistic rag (New York Times?). A chilling simulation…
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SJWs Warn Against Viewing It’s a Wonderful Life
Stream: SJWs Warn Against Viewing 'It's a Wonderful Life' The changes in our language and social practices ushered in by political correctness were only the beginning. As tumultuous as the…
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DDP: Quack Cures For What Doesn’t Ail Us, Part II
I'm at the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness meeting in No-History City, Louisiana. Here's Part II of (an earlier draft of) the speech I gave Saturday. Consider donating $1 for every…
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Scott Adams’s Climate Science Challenge
Scott Adams's Climate Science Challenge is of interest---thanks to reader Francsois for bringing it to our attention---because of his name-brand recognition. Here is the gist: So today's challenge is to…
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Stream: Pope Francis and President-Elect Trump Disagree on Global Warming Threat
Pope Francis and President-Elect Trump Disagree on Global Warming Threat: ... Yet the Holy Father will try and use his bully pulpit to influence the incoming administration. With the notable…