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Insanity & Doom Update XX
Item The Beatles: Has evolutionary biology proved the Fab Four's early work wasn't 'musically important'? "I think that our estimation of the Beatles' importance at that time, or how we…
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Pew’s New Survey on Religious Groups Views on Abortion
Stream: Pew's New Survey on Religious Groups Views on Abortion According to a new survey by Pew Research, Unitarian Universalists are the strongest proponents of legal abortion, and Jehovah's Witnesses…
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Vatican Zero — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
We all know the saying that history repeats itself, 'first as tragedy, second as farce'. That was Marx's take on Hegel's musings about history. Marx was particularly noting the rather…
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It’s Controversial — Guest Post by Kevin Groenhagen
Let's consider the word "controversial." According to Merriam-Webster it is "of, relating to, or arousing controversy." "Controversy" is defined as "a discussion marked especially by the expression of opposing views." The…
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Free Probability-Statistics Class: Predictive Case Study 1, Part IX
Review! Last time we successfully computed our model (8): (8) Pr(CGPA = i | guesses of new measures, grading rules, old obs, model), where i = 0,...,5. The model…
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Another Proof of the Uselessness of P-values
Susan Holmes has done us a service by writing clearly the philosophy of the p-value in her new paper "Statistical Proof? The Problem of Irreproducibility" in the Bulletin of the…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Why You Might Say Evil Is A Thing
Previous post. Today some purported counter-examples to this assertion are given, along with their rebuttals. As far as coming speaking about evil, see paragraph 5 and 6 from the second…
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Insanity & Doom Update XIX
Item Iceland's first pagan temple in 1000 years ready in late 2018 (first two sentences below) and A religion that speaks to people today (the rest) The Asatru temple in…
