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Critique Of Specification Curve Analysis
Dear reader, this will be a tad difficult, but I urge you to plow through as best you can, because this is becoming "a thing" in some areas. I stripped…
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Telekinesis: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification
We continue our series of wondering about the foundations of science. Not only is mechanistic materialism false, for the many reasons we'll discuss, but it is a thoroughly enervating philosophy.…
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The Physics Of Blessings: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification
This belongs to the realm of supposition. I do not know if it's true, only that it seems possible. I do know that there must be a "Reenchantment of the…
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Professor’s Long-Accurate Presidential Election Model Picks Biden. How Do We Judge This Model?
How impressive does this headline sound: "Forecaster who's predicted every presidential winner correctly for 40 YEARS reveals who he thinks will win 2024 election"? We'll use this to look at…
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William M. Briggs on Embracing Uncertainty and Stats as a False God – Thorinquiry
Thanks to EMM for the donation! I was interviewed by Duncan Thorin Shields (he goes by Thorin) last week. He asked the best questions I think I've ever been asked.…
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AI Needs To Feed On Fresh Meat, Or It Dies
In Asimov's original Foundation, a novel set amidst a fading and decaying Empire, one saturated in hubris and self-esteem, we meet Lord Dorwin, a celebrated scholar from the Galactic Empire,…
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Broken Science Epistemological Camp Report
There was another Broken Science event this past weekend in the Phoenix area. Yours Truly was there. I gather the videos will be on line at some point, at the…
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Why Attempts To Control Opinion Cause Opinion To Diverge
From Mars, John Carter reports in a wonderful essay discussing the Regime's attempts at manipulation says this: People don’t like being gaslit. The psychological techniques used by salesmen, con men,…