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How Many Times Must You Shoot To Be 95% Sure Of Hitting Your Target At Least Once?

Why do cops, and home and shop owners, empty their guns when shooting at bad guys? Another way to ask this is our title: How Many Times Must You Shoot…

Culture Statistics

The Vatican’s New Exhortation On “Climate Change” Has Many Errors

The Vatican issued a new Apostolic Exhortation, given in the name of Pope Francis, entitled Laudate Deum. The document is addressed "To all people of good will on the climate…

Fun

The Time Is Now For It To Be Now. Again.

What's Up? Time for our biannual update, dear readers. My forays into this new thing called "video" have, at long last, begun. It took me so long because I do…

Statistics

All—As In All—Of The “Climate Change Made This Event More Likely” Claims Are False

Here's a typical recent propaganda headline: "Climate change made Libya flooding 50 times more likely: Report." This is not so. Here's another recent one from PBS: "Climate change made global…

Culture Philosophy

Somebody Might Get Hurt!

For the closing days of summer, I am posting every chapter of the first edition of Everything You Believe Is Wrong. My enemies ravaged the first edition, inserting typos galore…

Culture Philosophy

Stars In Our Eyes, Rotting Our Minds

For the closing days of summer, I am posting every chapter of the first edition of Everything You Believe Is Wrong. My enemies ravaged the first edition, inserting typos galore…

Philosophy

Does Admitting Spengler’s End Of Science Mean We Have To Accept Ways Of Knowing?

Let's expand a point made in the post Blish & Spengler On The End Science. Both Blish, in his summary of Spengler, and Spengler himself, said that West Civilization (in…

Statistics

How To Discover Any Trend You Want In Climate Time Series

Day five of the week of classical posts on global warming, now "climate change", a subject which I had hoped had faded into obscurity, but, alas, has not. Your author…

Briggs on Shocking Abortion Numbers: Death Distributions Show We’re Living LongerMay 29, 2026
JohnK, Thanks. Rather depressing.
JohnK on Shocking Abortion Numbers: Death Distributions Show We’re Living LongerMay 29, 2026
Long time, no comment, but a few years ago I compared estimated stillbirth + abortion numbers (excluding miscarriages) in the…
Stickler on Shocking Abortion Numbers: Death Distributions Show We’re Living LongerMay 29, 2026
Men do not simply “allow” women to kill their children. They also demand it, drive or coerce them to the…
John M on Shocking Abortion Numbers: Death Distributions Show We’re Living LongerMay 28, 2026
The research and studies about reversing Alzheimer's and other dementia is amazing. It will have a big impact on longevity…
C-Marie on Shocking Abortion Numbers: Death Distributions Show We’re Living LongerMay 28, 2026
Once a woman becomes pregnant, she is a mother, and the man who gave his sperm is a father. When…