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How Did We Do On Our 2021 Predictions?
How'd we do? Put it this way: none of us would have won any awards. Here is the list so you can follow along (perhaps open in a new window).…
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The MIT Dahn Yoga Brain Respiration Experiment: How Belief In Failed Theories Persists
This article began as a series beginning 3 January 2009. I thought it well to revisit it as an example of how to investigate controversial Science. Clever readers will notice…
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The Political Corruption Of Science — Mandatory Oaths To Diversity Edition
We continue our series of the pozzing of science by Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity (DIE) mavens (the DIE is from Steve Sailer). A mathematician wrote in the Wall Street Journal…
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The Week In Doom — No True Scandinavian Edition
Item Tyranny Today in BC Supreme Court I heard one of the scariest things ever: a judge ordering a father to not call his female child his daughter. The judge…
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Identity Politics & Transhumanism
Joshua Mitchell has figured it out---mostly. Here is the main thesis of his essay "Dead Conservative Memes Can't Defeat the Identity Politics Clerisy": Neither liberals nor conservatives understand the weapon…
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Ghost In The AI
There's a terrific book, well worth scoring a copy, by M. Lamar Keene called The Psychic Mafia. Keene tells the tale of Camp Chesterfield, a sort of outlet shopping mall…
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Special Midweek Doom — AI Won’t Save The Right Edition
The Doom is piling up faster than I can shovel it out. Item Amazon's Facial Recognition Software Found To Be Racist, Sexist ...one thing I didn't see coming was allegations…
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Your Most Important Choice: Part II — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
Read Part I. As we consider Team 2 (Christianity) in light of the five points of interest to me, it bears noting that Christianity has a built-in advantage over Team…
