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Is Moral Certainty Possible?
I was on with Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J. the other day discussing whether moral certainty is possible. The answer is yes. But that does not imply we always know it. Here…
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We Passed Peak “Climate Change” (um) Research
Here is a graph of the yearly number of total papers that have the keyword "climate change" in them: I got these from scholar.google.com, searching for the term "climate change"…
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Sweet Wee Ps Say Sugar Makes You Lose Your Mind
Reminder: no Class until after Labor Day. Headlines blared that children growing up when the UK rationed sugar, a severe act resulting from one of their many wars, caused these…
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AI Is Neither Artificial Nor Intelligent
Podcast with Ian Pilon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyybFg1uZzg I'm on the road through next Monday. Posting will be somewhat oddly scheduled. There is a special post tomorrow (Thursday). Be ready for it! All…
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You Can’t Con An Honest Man & The Case of Jason Arday
Brit coppers---do they still call them the Old Bill?---investigated reporter Jack Grove for months because Grove investigated serial truth fornicator and black Cambridge (now ex-) professor Jason Arday, a black…
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Academics: Achieve Sustainability by Easing Population to 4 Billion by 2200
Reminder: No Class until after Labor Day. Today's title is real, and from a peer-reviewed paper of the same name by Mark Keegan and a bunch of other academics in…
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The Impossibility of Proposition Nations
Here is Joel Berry (former Babylon Bee chief): "Israel is a proposition nation, like America." A proposition nation is one in which, we are told, its citizens hold with a…
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Ugly Women Rulers Condemn Lookism
It was right after women seized majority control of Congress that the woman we all know as The Big Talker revealed to her husband (that balding tenured sociologist at Bryn…