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The Spirit Has Left Us
They always tell stories of the quiet unproductive or dissolute wasteful sorry debauched lives many of the heirs of the wealthy and powerful lead. The lack of ambition or corruption…
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An Instance Of How “The Science” Is Produced: Gender Equality Edition
This post is, as they say, in the weeds. But it's necessary for those who want to know how The Science is produced. I saw a tweet, the veracity of…
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Moving Away From The Mysticism Of “Random” Numbers
ET Jaynes in his must-have Probability Theory: The Logic of Science said, "It appears to be a quite general principle that, whenever there is a randomized way of doing something,…
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Researchers Claim Google Searches For Suicide Increase When Bills Banning Men From Women’s Showers Are Proposed: Here’s Why They’re Wrong
Listen to the podcast at YouTube, Bitchute, or Gab. Modern medical science has settled on this idea: if a man who pretends to be a woman is denied use of…
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The Regime’s Compulsion To Scientific Lunacy Explained (Partly)
We met our favorite headline the other day: Climate Change Destroys World, Pregnant People Hardest Hit. A version of that headline rolls off the science press about weekly, now. They…
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The Claim 37% Of Heat Deaths Are Caused By Global Warming Is Absurd
The media has been reporting that 37% "of warm-season heat-related deaths can be attributed to anthropogenic climate change". They gleaned this from the peer-reviewed paper, "The burden of heat-related mortality…
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The New CDC Masks Mandate Study Is Not Good
https://twitter.com/ianmSC/status/1442965194150457344 How would you check if mask mandates worked in schools? I can think of only one way. Contrast kids in schools with mandates and in those without. Get them…
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All Those Warnings About Models Are True: Researchers Given Same Data Come To Huge Number Of Conflicting Findings
Seventy-some researcher groups were given identical data, and asked to investigate an identical question. The groups did not communicate. Details are in the paper "Observing Many Researchers Using the Same…
