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Read Part I (first!). Munoz is right to show there was not unanimity among the Founders. Most adopted the language of rights, but some tempered this with doses of natural-law…
Here's the abstract from the peer-reviewed (so you know everything in it must be true and sworn to by every rational human being now and forever) paper "A volatile discourse…
There still exist defenders of p-values. The largest class, the superstitious, are those who remember nothing about p-values except that they must be wee. Let us in haste pass by…
Buy the book! Necessary & Conditional Truth Given "x,y,z are natural numbers and x>y and y>z" the proposition "x>z" is true (I am assuming logical knowledge here, which I don't…
Because, very oddly, there has been a changing of the catechism from the constant and ancient teaching ("the pope is distracting the world with fresh meat for the spirit of…
Item Keep under-25s out of adult prisons, MPs urge Young offenders up to the age of 25 should be kept out of adult prisons because of "irrefutable evidence" that the…
Golly, we seem to be doing a lot of this we-interrupt-this broadcast type of posts lately. Perhaps that 'climate of violence' business we've been hearing from the media is real…