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Insanity & Doom Update XLIII
Item Scoring 30% on a test is enough to graduate high school in NYC The bar keeps dropping on state math exams -- and critics are saying it's because officials…
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Ireland Worries Trans Women Can’t Secure Abortions
Ireland, a democracy, voted to purge its constitution of language preserving of life and so install abortion. Proving that the will of the people, when the people's will turns out…
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Western Colonialism Did Some Good
Those who lived where the Aztecs once ruled must thank God for Western colonialism. If it wasn't for the glorious religion of the Spanish, Mesoamerican governments might still be cutting…
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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…
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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…
