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Blish & Spengler On The End Science
The National Association of Scholars is hosting a webinar this Friday, 3 PM EST: Is Science Broken? featuring Yours Truly. Free, but you have to register. We were introduced to…
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Experts: Everybody In Europe Died From Breathing Toxic Air
A toxin, as the redoubtable reader undoubtedly knows, is a poison. And a poison, says Mr Webster, is that which causes "morbid, noxious, or deadly effects". People who ingest or…
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Science Says Global Warming To Cause More Heart Attacks At Night, But Only For Crazy Men 60-64.
With the waning of the coronadoom panic, and our elites unable to juice sufficient consternation over Russia, they will have to turn to other objects to monger their fear. Global…
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The Beginnings Of The Expertocracy (a.k.a. Managerial Society) Starts With Napoleon
The French Revolution is directly responsible for the creating the soil in which the managerial society grew. The Cult of Reason alone proves this. The initial flowering of the managerial…
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Academics Say Morality Isn’t Decreasing, But The Increasing Numbers Who Say It Is Decreasing Cause Morality To Decrease
This is part of our Mind of Academics series. I struggled both long, and, yes, hard, to come up with a clever joke to introduce today's academic "research", which claims…
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Probability Is Not Frequentist, Nor Math, Nor Real, Nor Subjective
I once had a guy walk out on me at a scientific conference, full of my peers. He and I were disagreeing about the nature of probability. The exact words…
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Solzhenitsyn, Communism, Miracles & The Imposing Your Beliefs Fallacy
Words and phrases can drift over time, as you all know, sometimes coming to mean even the opposite of their original definition. Like awful, meaning first something worthy of awe,…
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A Partial Solution For The Replication Crisis In Economics
I was invited by friends at Banking University, in Ho Chi Minh City, to write a paper with the title of today's post. That paper is here at this link,…
