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DDP: Quack Cures For What Doesn’t Ail Us, Part I

I'm at the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness meeting in No-History City, Louisiana. Here's Part I of (an earlier draft of) the speech I gave Saturday. Consider donating $1 for every…

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.…

Philosophy

Are We Special? New Thoughts about the Anthropic Principle — Guest Post by Bob Kurland

Editor's note This post first appeared at Kurland's home site. My criticisms follow. "Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix.…

Statistics

Theories Don’t Have Probabilities: Or, Is The Multiverse Real?

There was in Munich last week a three-day workshop on the soul of science. According to Quanta Magazine, the conference was driven by George Ellis and Joe Silk who wrote…

Book review Fun Statistics

The Full Briggs?

Our friend Joseph Moore at Yard Sale of the Mind, a site surely on everybody's list already, whose photograph appears atop this post, wrote It doesn't get much more civilized…

Statistics

Number 1 Book In Epistemology & In Logic! Get It While It’s Hot!

It's probably gone by now, but for a little while my new book, Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics, was "#1 New Release in Epistemology" then "#1 New…

Philosophy Statistics

Randomness & God

Reader Omer Abid points us to Serkan Zorba's article "God is Random: A New Perspective on Evolution and Creationism", which has concepts of interest to all of us (Abid asked…

Statistics

Uncertainty Gifs

Accept these silly GIFs in lieu of a post. I'd've had something meatier, but events overtook. First, I spent two days fixing code that was, after all, giving me the…

Johnno on The Enlightenment Was The Beginning Of The Great Leveling: Stove 2July 17, 2024
Hey Mr. Rightful Freedom. Please quote for us the passages DIRECTLY AFTER, starting from Matthew 25:26, which you DELIBERATELY ended…
Hagfish Bagpipe on Lesson 13: No “Fair” Dice & Jaynes SymmetryJuly 17, 2024
Received Breaking the Law of Averages, read the preface, started first chapter -- this is great, looks like the thing…
C-Marie on The Enlightenment Was The Beginning Of The Great Leveling: Stove 2July 17, 2024
Very interesting!! Thank you! God bless, C-Marie
Chaeremon on The Enlightenment Was The Beginning Of The Great Leveling: Stove 2July 17, 2024
peace is a moving target, always, forever, eternally; how can there be equality?
Pk on The Enlightenment Was The Beginning Of The Great Leveling: Stove 2July 17, 2024
The Slippery Slope Fallacy is the assumption that you are starting from and good, stable landing when, instead, we are…