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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).…
Register Your Predictions for 2022!
My Dear Friends, and, yes, Enemies, Happy New Year. As has been our tradition these many years, it's time to register our predictions for the coming year. We look at…
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Researchers Who Built Model To Say Vex Saved A Million Lives Announce Vex Saved A Million Lives
This is a slow day, with most off the internet, as is right and proper. So I will leave us with this repetition: All models, good or bad, inexpert or…
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Propagandists Boast Of Finagling Wikipedia: Here’s How To Have Wikipedia Revenge
It is good to take pride in your work. It is good, too, to show enthusiasm. And when a job has been completed in an exemplary fashion, it is sometimes…
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The Great Typo Hunt: My Enemies Insert Errors Into Everything You Believe Is Wrong
From Anon: I'm trying to read your book, "Everything You Believe is Wrong", but it's tough going. You need an editor! Case in point, in the section "Democracy is Discord"…
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We’d Never Be Where We Are Except For Technology — Coronadoom Update CXII
Increased technology is responsible for the coronadoom bug, panic, and "solutions" tyranny. If our level of technology was less, there would have been no bug, there would have been no…
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Prozac & Its Relatives — Guest Post by Robert Yoho
Psychiatry is the drug industry's paradise, as definitions of psychiatric disorders are vague and easy to manipulate. Leading psychiatrists are... at high risk of corruption and, indeed, psychiatrists collect more…
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Merry Christmas
Dearest readers, It is has been a remarkable year, my dear crew, but, God willing, next year will be less noteworthy. Either way, I am glad you are all here…
