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Math Is Epistemic Violence, Says Lady Academic
June 17, 2026
Truly Random Numbers Found?
June 15, 2026
Class 91: Try Not To Use the ROC Curve & AUC
June 11, 2026
Climate Change Increases Risk of Even Slower World Cup Games!
June 10, 2026
The Ultimate IQ Test: Guessing the Author’s Mind and Escaping the Infinity of Answers
June 8, 2026
Reader Poll: Shorter or Longer, Frequent or Rarer Posts?
June 4, 2026
No Model Will Save Us: Pope Leo, the Miserostat, and AI’s Woke Coders
June 3, 2026
How High an IQ Must A Person Have To Be Executed?
June 1, 2026
Class 90: Simple (Optimal) Decisions
May 28, 2026
Shocking Abortion Numbers: Death Distributions Show We’re Living Longer
May 27, 2026
Blessed Memorial Day; No Class; See You Wednesday
May 21, 2026
Why There Are (Probably) No UFOs: “Climate Change”
May 20, 2026
Creating Microbial Monsters To Terrorize Ourselves
May 18, 2026
Class 89: The Measure Most Modelers Forget: Skill Examples
May 14, 2026
The Shocking Conclusion of the HR Trilemma!
May 13, 2026
The HR Trilemma: Which Door Decides Your Fate?
May 12, 2026
Capital Punishment Deters Crime More Than The Death Penalty
May 11, 2026
How Experts Use “Calamities” to Find Official Victims & Gain Power
May 6, 2026
Richard Dawkins, The Big Muscles Fallacy & AI Pachinko
May 4, 2026
Class 88: The Most Neglected Concept: Skill
April 30, 2026
The Red-Blue Button Dilemma & Its Surprising Answer
April 29, 2026
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Math Is Epistemic Violence, Says Lady Academic

Posted by By Briggs June 17, 2026
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Truly Random Numbers Found?

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Summary Against Modern Thought: God Hates Nothing

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. Three quick…
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The Pope Is Wrong About Global Warming

God bless Pope Francis. But he is wrong about global warming, and even wronger about "special interests" trying to keep global warming going. The Holy Father knows a lot more…
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Stream: There’s Big Money in Global Warming Alarmism

Cop21 is upon us. Dread it. The Pope yesterday spoke of the corrupting influence of "special interest" groups. Amen to that. Although these groups aren't who the Pope thinks they…
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Best Equivocation Joke: Open Thread

It being a slow traffic week and me being on the road and swamped---COP21 is coming up next week, working on a new book, news of the old one is…
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Ridley Claims Materialists, Atheists, & Secular Humanists Don’t Preach

Matt Ridley has a curious piece in The Times (no, the better one), "Why Muslims are turning away from Islam". (Incidentally, Ridley and I both have chapters in the new…
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The Crybaby Fallacy (Which Atheists Often Use)

Many atheists are notorious for arguing from desire. (Be ever careful of the So's-Yer-Old-Man Fallacy.) God doesn't exist, they say or imply, because He's a big meanie, because His demands…
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Posted inPhilosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: God Cannot Will Evil

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. Two important…
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Posted inCulture

This Week In Doom: Meat Eating & The Sins Of Sexual Normalcy

Too many people eating too much meat? The Stream has the most hilarious, but eminently practical, article "There Aren't as Many People as a Lot of Environmentalists Think: Some Elementary…
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    Hahahaha! Well done. Especially the YT video wherein you can't stop laughing. Me either. It's tragicomic. Old karens, childless, worn…

  2. NLR on Math Is Epistemic Violence, Says Lady AcademicJune 17, 2026

    The real issue with this is that it is an attempted justification for the studies departments to take over other…

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