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Is Presuming Innocence A Bayesian Prior?
Note An earlier version of this post was accidentally sent out in unedited form. My enemies caused me to hit the wrong button. Subscribers: apologies for the near duplicate email.…
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Bayesian Theorists Were Little Better Than Cranks
I stole today's title from David Papineau's essay "Thomas Bayes and the crisis in science", which many readers sent in. When I was in grad school bad in the early…
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Diversity Is Our Weakness
Diversity is our weakness. Diversity is the process of giving special consideration to those who have favored demographic or biologic characteristics or who have non-procreative sexual desires. Now you might…
Posted inPhilosophy SAMT
Summary Against Modern Thought: Ultimate Happiness Man’s Knowledge of God
Previous post. Three-word summary: Avoid bad books. That Human Felicity Does Not Consist In the Knowledge of God Which is Generally Possessed by Most Men 1 It remains to investigate…
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Insanity & Doom Update XLII — With Homework Assigned!
Item Diversity Is Not a Threat: Study Links Low Intelligence to Fear of Gay Lifestyle A new study from researchers at University of Queensland, Australia, has identified that those with…
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Manufacturing Hate: Manipulating The Masses To Incite Revolution — Guest Post by Jim Fedako
Last Saturday I went on a quest to find the source of rising leftist hatred. I wanted to get behind the facades fronting websites and Facebook posts, as well as…
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Sorry Never Trumpers. God Bless President Trump & God Bless the U.S.A.
On this slowest of slow days we have a pointer to an enjoyable essay on the death of Never Trumpism by Emerald Robinson. The Never Trumpers have self-exiled. If not…
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Fireworks!
This post originally ran 4 July 2014. The first one that says "grand finale" gets it. It's over when it's over. I spent a year of boyhood in Chicago, 1975.…
