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Register Your Predictions For 2019!
As has been our tradition these many years, it's time to register our predictions for the coming year. We look at how well we did last year tomorrow. Rules: Number…
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The Week In Doom — Big Sister’s Hate List Edition
Item 'Doctor' Advises Threatening Suicide To Get Transgender Treatments For Kids Last month, Justice Gregory Bowden of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, Canada ruled that a 14-year-old girl may…
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The Week In Doom — Pedophilia Is An Orientation Edition
Item The purge of Dr Seuss has begun 'Take home a n***** for your woodpile.' Children's author Dr. Seuss once wrote shockingly racist and misogynistic cartoons and REFUSED to apologize…
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Another Example Proving Academia Is Worse Than You Thought
This is a slow week, so I do not now want to continue the discussion of what the best replacement of academia is. That is needs replacing I take as…
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Another AI Exaggeration: It Can Say Why There Is Religious Conflict
Dear reader, though you won't believe it, there is such a thing as the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. When you search its name, Google shows you this:…
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Woke Science: Implicit Bias Test
I was disappointed, but not surprised, to learn that the Santa Fe Institute became Woke. https://twitter.com/sfiscience/status/1091139103209467904 The tweet reads: You are more likely to help someone with a surname you…
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Insanity & Doom Update XLV
Item How Identity Politics Is Harming the Sciences A scientist at UCLA reports: "All across the country the big question now in STEM is: how can we promote more women…
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A Joke About Race As Social Construct
Turns out Bhutan bans opinion polls. So I thought of making a poll asking this question: Should opinion polls be banned? * Yes, * No. Now there is only one…
