The Inevitable Red Skins Name Controversy Post
Readers have been patiently waiting for the WMBriggs.com take on the Washington Redskins1 controversy, the gist of which is this: Lefties don't like the name because they feel only they…
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That Innovation Is Negatively Correlated With Religion Study
Quick Quiz O' The Day: What do you get when you marry an abysmal knowledge of history, a sublime narcissism, an ignorance of the nature of evidence, a perverse hatred…
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The Science-Is-Self-Correcting Fallacy
"You know my theory is true," said the grant-wielding scientist, "Because science is self-correcting." That statement is a fallacy because, of course, even supposing that science is self-correcting, there is…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: God Is Not A Body. 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. God is…
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Scenes From A Mid-Sized University
A couple of small but notable items, lifted from one issue of a mid-sized university school newspaper. "Student success is a major component of the strategic plan..." Component? Strategic plan?…
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Mark Zuckerberg Dresses Like A Bum
Why I am writing about this, what might seem to you, not-too-pressing subject? The answer is discovered below. Before the reveal, an example of an ad hominem fallacy: "Facebook is…
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On The Truth And Knowing Why
Guy walks up to you in the street and says, "If f is some continuous function on the closed interval a to b, and if you take the definite integral…
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More On Randomness
I took this picture yesterday (using my mom's phone: mine can't offload photos) at the start of the cul de sac, at the bottom of which lies the first job…
