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What Is Science?
More streams coming! Including iTunes, if I can get by the censors. You can also listen at YouTube. See this frog? The "IFL Science" people say that frog is Science.…
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Blinded By Science
A remarkable article on the state of Science has emerged from the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Ostensibly, the article is a lament on the horrors in our world. Things like…
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Vex-Caused Deaths In The UK
Anon sends us to the UK's vex and no vex death data, which in the version I'm using was last updated in May. I'm using Table 2 from that report.…
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The MIT Dahn Yoga Brain Respiration Experiment: How Belief In Failed Theories Persists
This article began as a series beginning 3 January 2009. I thought it well to revisit it as an example of how to investigate controversial Science. Clever readers will notice…
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A People’s History of COVID-19
This essay first appeared at Mars Review of Books. SCIENCE Listen to The Science! Here is what The Science said: Stay inside for two weeks and we’ll flatten the curve.…
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Turns Out The Vex Likely Caused Myocarditis & Pericarditis After All
Remember how the woke and super-concerned and awfully caring and, most of all, ignorant (I use this word in its technical sense) censors at YouTube, Twitter and all the rest…
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A Secret Facet Of The Woke Identified!
After months of rigorous investigation, and employing the most sophisticated computerized machine learning AI systems, a fundamental component, a key facet, an integral essential fact, a fact heretofore unnoticed, about…
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Debunking Prebunking & Other Disinformation Scams
An article in Psychology Today, a deeply earnest and condemnatory article on disinformation and the brave efforts to "fight" it using "prebunking", contains the following sentence: "Every day around 9…