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UFO Reports About To Blast Off!
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Class 87: Calibration & Conformal Prediction: Examples
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Noticing Differences Between Races Does Not Pay
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The Week In Doom — Tranny Madness is Big Business Edition
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The Week In Doom — Tranny Madness is Big Business Edition

As regular readers know, it's impossible to keep up with all the Doom in one week. Use the contact form to send me things you think I might miss. Or…
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Why The Bootstrap Seems To Work—And Why It Produces Over-Certainty
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Why The Bootstrap Seems To Work—And Why It Produces Over-Certainty

Let's drag the statistician's hoary threadbare ball-filled bag out of the cupboard to make a point. In it are 3 white balls and 2 black. Using the statistical syllogism, we…
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Your Most Important Choice: Part III — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
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Your Most Important Choice: Part III — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Read Part II Let's set the context for the word according to Islam. Christianity, at the time of Mohammed, had eclipsed Judaism (of any form) as well as the religion(s)…
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Paper Says Some Psychiatric Diagnoses “Scientifically Meaningless”
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Paper Says Some Psychiatric Diagnoses “Scientifically Meaningless”

The title is an understatement: Heterogeneity in psychiatric diagnostic classification. This is a paper in Psychiatry Research by Kate Allsopp, John Read, Rhiannon Corcoran, and Peter Kinderman. Abstract (to which…
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The Myth Of Physicalism — Guest Post by The Cranky Professor
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The Myth Of Physicalism — Guest Post by The Cranky Professor

Physicalism is an extreme form of materialism that says that only physical entities exist. This differs from more moderate forms of materialism like property dualism or emergentism where immaterial entities…
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Of Course “Being” A Homosexual Is A Sin
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Of Course “Being” A Homosexual Is A Sin

Being a homosexual, it it means anything, means embracing a certain style of behavior, dress, mindset and mannerisms. Most dress and mannerisms are not sins, but some mindsets and many…
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Summary Against Modern Thought:  The Heavens Do Not Control All
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Summary Against Modern Thought: The Heavens Do Not Control All

Previous post. It's not so much of a live question these days of astrological forces. Nevertheless, it used to be, and these arguments are of interest because of it. THAT…
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The Week In Doom — Leftist Violence Edition
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The Week In Doom — Leftist Violence Edition

Item The Treatment of Migrants Likely 'Meets the Definition of a Mass Atrocity' Children are suffering and dying. The fastest way to stop it is to make sure those responsible,…
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