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The MIT Dahn Yoga Brain Respiration Experiment: How Belief In Failed Theories Persists

This article began as a series beginning 3 January 2009. I thought it well to revisit it as an example of how to investigate controversial Science. Clever readers will notice…

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The Political Corruption Of Science — Mandatory Oaths To Diversity Edition

We continue our series of the pozzing of science by Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity (DIE) mavens (the DIE is from Steve Sailer). A mathematician wrote in the Wall Street Journal…

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The Week In Doom — No True Scandinavian Edition

Item Tyranny Today in BC Supreme Court I heard one of the scariest things ever: a judge ordering a father to not call his female child his daughter. The judge…

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Identity Politics & Transhumanism

Joshua Mitchell has figured it out---mostly. Here is the main thesis of his essay "Dead Conservative Memes Can't Defeat the Identity Politics Clerisy": Neither liberals nor conservatives understand the weapon…

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Ghost In The AI

There's a terrific book, well worth scoring a copy, by M. Lamar Keene called The Psychic Mafia. Keene tells the tale of Camp Chesterfield, a sort of outlet shopping mall…

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Special Midweek Doom — AI Won’t Save The Right Edition

The Doom is piling up faster than I can shovel it out. Item Amazon's Facial Recognition Software Found To Be Racist, Sexist ...one thing I didn't see coming was allegations…

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Your Most Important Choice: Part II — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Read Part I. As we consider Team 2 (Christianity) in light of the five points of interest to me, it bears noting that Christianity has a built-in advantage over Team…

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The Limitations And Usefulness Of IQ

That Smarts Everybody knows that some people are smarter than others, and that some are teachable and some not. Well, some people do deny these facts, believing that if everybody…

Briggs on How Can You Tell If You Have ESP?June 30, 2025
Spetzer, All good points. I go into many of them later in the chapter.
spetzer86 on How Can You Tell If You Have ESP?June 30, 2025
If the receiver and sender independently wrote down the guess / card with no verbal communication, it might be better.…
JH on Class 56: The Best Model!June 29, 2025
How can you make predictions in the big data era without using a model? Trust your gut.
Jonas P. Kay on Which God Are You Rejecting? David Bentley Hart’s The Experience of God, Part IJune 28, 2025
I answer all by saying you cannot get something from nothing. There is beauty in its simplicity and it is…
Johnno on England’s Mandatory Suicide & WomenJune 27, 2025
So what's the betting pool on the odds about when and in which country will be the first to perform…