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Big Muscles: Experts Know Best
For the closing days of summer, I am posting every chapter of the first edition of Everything You Believe Is Wrong. My enemies ravaged the first edition, inserting typos galore…
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Pope Benedict’s Final Testament On How Science Cannot Destroy Faith
Pope Benedict, as all popes do, left a Spiritual Testament, a short summary of his beliefs to be read after he was dead. Benedict devoted a good portion of his…
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Our Base Metaphors & Analogies Used In Science Have Outlived Their Usefulness: Part I
Metaphors and analogies exhaust themselves. No matter how useful they are as guides to thought, pushed too far they can loosen our grip on Reality or lead to stagnation, and…
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What’s The Difference Between Explanation & Prediction?
Our main goal is to learn if or how a theory can be falsified. Sound easy? It isn't. In order to get there, we first need to grasp what is…
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The Worst Attempt To Defend Scientism I Ever Heard
A public radio station hosts what they call "The Academic Minute", a name which signals you are in for sixty seconds of pain. This was so in a minute from…
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There Is No Problem Of Old Evidence In Bayesian Probability
Rationalists, like those at Less Wrong (think Eliezer Yudkowsky and Scott Alexander), are prone to fetishsize Bayes theorem, seeing it as the key to all thought. It isn't. Bayes is…
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Do We Need Philosophy, Or Can Science Replace It?
You see the news? Woman pretending to be a man walked into a school and murdered a bunch of kids. "I know what you're going to say. You're going to…
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It Takes Just As Much Free Will To Punish As To Do Wrong
Listen to the podcast on YouTube, Bitchute, or Gab. Thing that always cracks me up about anti-free will arguments is the contradictions. Too many of those arguments take this shape:…
