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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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How Not To Think Like A Bayesian Rationalist
Lisping Rationalists When I read people like Eliezer Yudkowsky and Scott Alexander it becomes clear to me how the French could have built a Temple of Reason during The Terror.…
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Celebrating The Court’s Common Sense — And Lamenting Its Mistake
The OSHA opinion is here: the "Health" opinion is here. We earlier went through the Fifth Circuit quashing the OSHA mandate. The Court ruled twice yesterday. Once on the OSHA…
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The Many Ways The Vaccination Seat-Belt Analogy Fails
If you don't wear your seat belt, I am at greater risk of catching coronadoom. And thus my grandmother might die, you granny killer. Is that what they mean by…
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What Does It Mean To Assess Risk Wrong? Coronadoom Example
There is, as de Finetti said, no such thing as probability. So there is no such thing as risk, either, since risk relies upon probability. If there is no such…
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Is Mandatory Vaccination Against COVID-19 Precautionary? — Guest Post by Jaap Hanekamp
This post originally ran at Hanekamp's own site1. He is a chemist and theologian. My love and I are fortunate enough to have three children, now in their twenties. They…
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The Best Decision For A Doctor Might Not Be Yours
Probably for the shock value, news outlets are quoting this odd doctor, Ezekiel Emanuel, who, the title promises us, says "U.S. Must Stay Locked Down For 12-18 Months Until There's…
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Equality Always Wins
The gloomy, but accurate, words forming today's title were penned by Damon Linker in "How Ireland's gay marriage vote exposes the catch-22 of modern Christianity". That equality always wins is…
