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Academic: Genetically Engineer Shorter People To Battle “Climate Change”
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Academic: Genetically Engineer Shorter People To Battle “Climate Change”

This classic post originally ran 25 July 2014. I have corrected the text where my enemies inserted errors. The original title said "global warming", as it used to be known,…
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Arrest All Stochastic Terrorists In Trump Assassination Attempt & Civilian Murder & Shootings
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Arrest All Stochastic Terrorists In Trump Assassination Attempt & Civilian Murder & Shootings

Class will be delayed one day, until tomorrow. Academics at universities, which are the best kind of academics, invented the idea of stochastic terrorism. According to academic James Angove (who…
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Universal Education Caused Managerialism
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Universal Education Caused Managerialism

The original title was "A Difficult-To-Remove Cause Of The Managerial State ". I changed it. My title-writing skills stink. In a review of Auron MacIntyre's Total State: How Liberal Democracies…
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Women Celebrate As Their Chance To Become A Victim On Campus Just Skyrocketed
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Women Celebrate As Their Chance To Become A Victim On Campus Just Skyrocketed

Women---not all but a good number of women, that is---hunger to be Victims. This allows them both status, for ours is increasingly a culture that holds Victims in the highest…
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Class 3: Uncertainty & Probability Theory: The Logic of Science: Belief & Faith
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Class 3: Uncertainty & Probability Theory: The Logic of Science: Belief & Faith

Link to all Classes. Video Links: YouTube Twitter Rumble It still feels like I'm rushing things, but the videos are already a half hour. I can't see your faces so…
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Only A Bare Majority Of Scientists Believe In Sexual Reproduction
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Only A Bare Majority Of Scientists Believe In Sexual Reproduction

So the Brit paper The Telegraph had the idea of polling 200 scientists at British universities and asking whether or not they were science deniers. Sit down, dear reader. I…
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Why Attempts To Control Opinion Cause Opinion To Diverge
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Why Attempts To Control Opinion Cause Opinion To Diverge

From Mars, John Carter reports in a wonderful essay discussing the Regime's attempts at manipulation says this: People don’t like being gaslit. The psychological techniques used by salesmen, con men,…
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David Deutsch Rediscovers The Worst Argument In The World
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David Deutsch Rediscovers The Worst Argument In The World

You can read the whole story at Jim Franklin's place of how the late and lamented David Stove held a contest for the Worst Argument In The World. In [Stove's]…
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    Darin, There is no interval around a probability (with esoteric exceptions not of interest to us). All your evidence is…

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