As usual, we had many predictions for 2023, too many to list them all. As before, I’ll only highlight the best, or worst, or funniest forecast every entrant gave. For exceptional predictors, […]
Two Female Academics Blame Prayer For Women Not Being Men
Two academic women are sure the last barrier to the fall of the patriarchy—and installation of the matriarchy?—is prayer. They said so directly in their peer-reviewed paper “The Hidden Cost of Prayer: […]
Worst Science Fiction of All Time
Shoot to kill July 1995 I wrote this in 1995 and had it posted to my student website at Cornell. I thought that it was lost forever, and I only managed to […]
How Did We Do On Our 2021 Predictions?
How’d we do? Put it this way: none of us would have won any awards. Here is the list so you can follow along (perhaps open in a new window). As in […]
The Political Corruption Of Science — Mandatory Oaths To Diversity Edition
We continue our series of the pozzing of science by Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity (DIE) mavens (the DIE is from Steve Sailer). A mathematician wrote in the Wall Street Journal of her […]
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 I designed […]
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 has compelled […]
Identity Politics & Transhumanism
Joshua Mitchell has figured it out—mostly. Here is the main thesis of his essay “Dead Conservative Memes Can’t Defeat the Identity Politics Clerisy“: Neither liberals nor conservatives understand the weapon of identity […]
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