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The Predictive Way Is The Only Way In Statistics: Sick Cow Edition
What is the purpose of modeling? There can be only two. The first is to say what happened, to explain. But in order to do this one must first assume…
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Science Retracts Paper That Claimed Black Babies Born Smaller Because Of Police Violence
See this peer-reviewed, but then-retracted, paper "Police violence and the health of black infants" by some person calling his- or herself Joscha Legewie? After it was peer reviewed by knowledgeable…
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Ignorant Brat Greta Thunberg Calls For & Walks Back Lining Her Enemies Up Against The Wall
I saw on Twitter a well-intentioned, normally rational priest say he was sad, right before he admonished Trump, because he, Trump, dared to tease ignorant brat Greta Thunberg. She was…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Sin In Demons
Previous post. Thanks to many generous readers, we have many new sources! We're back! ARGUMENTS WHEREBY IT SEEMS TO BE PROVED THAT THERE CAN BE NO SIN IN DEMONS 1…
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The Week In Doom — Disney/Marvel Cash In On Perversion Edition
Item World's first human composting site to open The world's first funeral home dedicated to composting human beings is set to open in 2021 -- allowing those left behind to…
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Forget Priors!
From Bill Raynor: Hello Matt, You like to discuss P(Y|M) a lot, but haven't spent much time talking about the practical construction of that. A topic I'd like to see:…
Posted inPhilosophy
Universal Skepticism Debunked — Guest Post by The Cranky Professor
Universal Skepticism and Its Problem with Pulling Goal Posts on Every Knowledge Claim Universal skepticism (otherwise known as absolute skepticism or global skepticism) is the view that real knowledge is…
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Ladies’ STEM Research: How Physics WILL Be Redefined
Back in the late 1960s and into the 1970s, universities were desirous of increasing the number of non-males on their faculties. They didn't have to do this, but the leadership…
