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Big Muscles: Experts Know Best
For the closing days of summer, I am posting every chapter of the first edition of Everything You Believe Is Wrong. My enemies ravaged the first edition, inserting typos galore…
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I’m An Expert: I Must Be Right
For the closing days of summer, I am posting every chapter of the first edition of Everything You Believe Is Wrong. My enemies ravaged the first edition, inserting typos galore…
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The Most Common Fallacies Our Enemies Use
For the closing days of summer, I am posting every chapter of the first edition of Everything You Believe Is Wrong. My enemies ravaged the first edition, inserting typos galore…
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What Happened At An Academic Expert Disinformation Summit
We---but not Anon, who reports below---missed the Cambridge Disinformation Summit, held the last week of July (Videoes). Conference organizers described their sensitivity soirée thusly: Strategic disinformation is an accelerant for…
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The Supreme Court Should Have Allowed ALL Free Association
You have heard that SCOTUS struck down, in a weak way, Affirmative Action at universities, the systemic pandering to blacks and other people "of color". (PDF of ruling.) This is…
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“AI Will Kill Us All!” Say People Programming AI To Kill Us All
My goodness, what a distinguished list of AI Scientists and "Notable Figures" who have signed the "Statement on AI Risk". Important professors of computer science from top universities. Men, and…
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On Why That “In Defense of Merit in Science” Paper Will Fail In Its Worthy Goal
You might have heard of the peer-reviewed article "In Defense of Merit in Science" by "intellectual dark web" members like Peter Boghossian and old-school lefties like Jerry Coyne, John McWhorter…
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Do We Need Philosophy, Or Can Science Replace It?
You see the news? Woman pretending to be a man walked into a school and murdered a bunch of kids. "I know what you're going to say. You're going to…