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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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The Problem of an Excess of Educated Men
Leo K, one of our regular readers, gave us a link which led to the Lenore O'Boyle paper "The Problem of an Excess of Educated Men in Western Europe, 1800-1850"…
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We Don’t Want Ideological Diversity
I realized after I wrote this that it could stand for my mandatory Diversity statement. We want Truth and Reality to be represented in academia. We certainly don't need racial…
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The Week In Doom — Bad Science Edition
Abbreviated doom this week since I'm on the road. Item Mathematicians divided over faculty hiring practices that require proof of efforts to promote diversity (Thanks to Kip Hansen for the…
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The Political Corruption Of Science– U Michigan Inserts Zampolit Into Every Office Edition
This happened a little while back, but it's still of great importance. The University of Michigan inserted zampolit (political officers) into each and "every academic and administrative unit." According to…
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The Week In Doom — California School Free-For-All Edition
Here are two weeks of Doom crammed into one. Item Bombs away! Either it's WWIII or just one more dead body in the Mideast pleasing the usual suspects. Ben Shapiro…
How’d We Do On Our 2019 Predictions?
A strong no prize this year. Nobody did well enough. Not enough specific predictions, or those that were specific did not come to pass. Doom predictions are too easy: they…
Register Your Predictions for 2020!
As has been our tradition these many years, it's time to register our predictions for the coming year. We look at how well we did last year tomorrow. Rules: Everybody…