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Government Creates More Speech Codes For Campuses: How To Fight Back

The Department of Education, like the IRS, is a beneficent and benevolent bureaucracy which only has our best interests at heart and which is in no way political, has decided…

Philosophy

Dawkins Gets It Wrong Again: Similar Is Not The Same

Richard Dawkins in an article to the New Statesman---the same issue which somebody who obviously wasn't in full possession of his faculties assigned to Dawkins as editor---the Christmas issue, mind---an…

Statistics

Briggs Makes Der Spiegel: Violence “Linked”, Etc.

That embarrassing Science paper which "proves" "violence" will increase because of climate change is exciting interest globally. It certainly provided us a certain amount of harmless fun. But this time…

Philosophy

Something From Nothing: Or, A Heavenly Fish Sandwich

So I was sitting on the porch by the lake reading a piece by Trent Horn on the first premise of the kalam cosmological argument for the existence of God,…

Culture Fun

Six Types Of Atheists?

A group of academics---and in a happy shock, they used their own money to show this---discovered that there were six types of atheists. Which type are you? Christopher Silver, of…

Philosophy

Bioethicist Calls Unborn “Innocent Aggressors”

Introduction This was originally written very badly and in the wrong spirit. I beg the reader's forgiveness. It is now better but still imperfect. Charles C. Camosy1 is a bioethicist---Yours…

Statistics

Too Damn Sure: The Epidemiologist Fallacy

Introduction Marchmain Pharmaceuticals distributes profitizol, said to cure the screaming willies. To assess that claim, Marchmain assembled volunteers suffering this dread malady. Each provided his address, which was used to…

Philosophy Statistics

Objective Bayes Vs. Logical Probability (Vs. Frequentism)

Reader and colleague JH has rightly taken me to task (via email) for incorrectly calling, or rather misleadingly labeling, logical probability "objective Bayes." She pointed to this set of lecture…

C-Marie on Communism Doesn’t Go Away Until Egalitarianism Dies: The Works of David Stove 3August 31, 2024
Sooo happy for you and your family!! God bless, C-Marie
NLR on Killing A Paradox: The Two EnvelopesAugust 31, 2024
Another thing is that there are two kinds of uncertainty in this problem. There's the uncertainty of how much money…
hudbwu on Quelling Violence In Terror States! The Return Of DickmanAugust 31, 2024
@JH: Marriage = sex, more or less. A case can be made H. sapiens evolved into exclusive lifelong monogamy, that…
Nate on Killing A Paradox: The Two EnvelopesAugust 31, 2024
Riggs, there's no contradiction in the 2nd item. The second problem simply is not the same problem the same as…
AG McNeil on Communism Doesn’t Go Away Until Egalitarianism Dies: The Works of David Stove 3August 31, 2024
"Here is a depressing thread of 40-something women who believe they can still have kids." Why would that be depressing?…