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…
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Insanity & Doom Update LXIX — Don’t You Call Me Sir Edition
No video this week. Weep and despair! Item Berkeley prof wants to nix student evals after white male profs score higher A University of California, Berkeley professor suggested scrapping end-of-semester…
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What Is White Supremacy? Let’s Ask The Experts!
The Senate, under the wise directorship of Jerry "The Whale" Nadler, last week debuted its new play Its White Supremacy!. Reviews were mixed. They would have perhaps done better if…
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Insanity & Doom Update LX
Item Item removed! I was too eager for Doom and was hoaxed. Pure laziness on my part. Well, partial stupidity, too. Thanks to Valeriu for the tip. See the comment…
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SAT’s Adversity Score New Way To Enforce Racial Quotas
The College Board will soon attach Pity Points to SAT scores. The Pity Points will be used to suggest that those who scored poorly did not in fact score poorly…
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The Week In Doom — Nadless Mark Hamill Edition
Item Lulu and Nana: First genetically modified babies born in China, researcher says How were Lulu's and Nana's genes modified? The inner life of cells is difficult to explain without…
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Case Study Of How Easy It Is To Go Wrong
We used to talk a lot about the amygdala here: Yet Another Study "Proves" Liberal, Conservative Brain Differences (wee ps, amygdalas), Scientists Suddenly Discover Men Don't Understand Women (wee ps,…
