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Summary Against Modern Thought: The Soul Begins At Conception, Part II

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. Part II…

Books

EVERYTHING YOU BELIEVE IS WRONG Pre-published in December 2021, but officially in January 2022. Buy it. Errata page: submit typos and mistakes here, thank you. Free first chapter is here.…

Statistics

Headline: We Used Terrible Science to Justify Smoking Bans. Amen: We Did

When they used to tell me I would shorten my life ten years by smoking, they little knew the devotee they were wasting their puerile word upon---they little knew how…

Fun Philosophy

Ad Hominem, My Sweet

I'm on the road for the next several days and won't always have access to the Internet. So I'm reposting a series of classic fallacies. Regular service to resume early…

Book review Statistics

Uncertainty Reviewed Again: It is such a good book, and I recommend it without reservation

Don Aitkin, author of Moving On: A Tale of the Millennium, also available here, and feted here, and reviewed here, has reviewed my Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability and…

Statistics

Bad Science Used to Block Americans’ Access to Life-Saving Technology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbf_TXqEY-Y Our friend Jane Orient, lead doc at Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, put out the release below, in which she very kindly mentions Yours Truly. The AAPS runs…

Culture

Countering The Claim That Francis Is An Antipope — Guest Post by Fr. John Rickert, FSSP

Editor's note. The sentiment, and even conviction, that Francis is an Antipope has been growing. Because these are tumultuous times and it is best not to be distracted, I asked…

Statistics

Don’t Use Statistical Models (When You Don’t Have To. Which Is Nearly Always)

Today, a convincing argument proving the current practice of probability and statistics is mostly wrong, or wrong-headed. The picture above does---and does not---show herbicide use in several countries by year…

Johnno on Reasons Not To Like Prediction MarketsJuly 28, 2024
Meanwhile, in Argentina... Looks like the predictions against Milei have not turned out! The Argentine experiment is particularly interesting in…
Johnno on Reasons Not To Like Prediction MarketsJuly 28, 2024
Blackouts reportedly now too! https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13680143/Paris-hit-power-outage-hours-city-battered-rain-transport-brought-knees-protesters-backlash-grows-opening-ceremony.html However! https://voxday.net/2024/07/28/god-will-not-be-mocked/
Johnno on Reasons Not To Like Prediction MarketsJuly 28, 2024
Well, at least another of my New Year's WMBRIGGS dot com predictions is coming to fruition! You should send your…
Gespenst on Reasons Not To Like Prediction MarketsJuly 27, 2024
Seems to negate the "Wisdom of Crowds" hypothesis.
Thérèse on RIP Wolfgang Smith: Philosopher, Scientist, CatholicJuly 26, 2024
Fascinated, grateful that he should have corresponded with Fr. Martin. One fine day indeed we shall know all.