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Geo-engineering The Climate: Durban Global Warming Conference

A group of scientists, funded generously by Big Green, which includes the Environmental Defense Fund, have released a report to coincide with the efforts of the Durban Global Warming Conference,…

Statistics

Increasing Replication Of Un-Reproducibility In Science

Best science picture of the year, courtesy of the Wall Street Journal (and thanks to reader Dan Hughes): In just the last decade---ten mere years---the number of "peer-reviewed" journal articles…

Culture

Make Colleges Co-Signers Of Student Loans?

As often has been said, if everybody is a genius, then nobody is. The wisdom in this apothegm is little changed by the modification: if everybody has a certification of…

Philosophy

Is Free Will an Illusion?

Tis the season to ask the title question, as it was rhetorically asked by Shaun Nichols, an academic "experimental" philosopher at the University of Arizona. Nichols has sympathy with those…

Culture Fun

Iowa Professor Shocked To Discover He’s In Iowa

Stephen Bloom is a long-time professor of journalism ("Double spacing has twice as much space as single spacing", "On-line journals are called 'blogs'") at the University of Iowa. Bloom thinks…

Culture Statistics

Low IQ & Liberal Beliefs Linked To Poor Research?

Watch out Sam Harris, Gordon Hodson and Michael A. Busseri of Brock University are giving you competition for the worst use of statistics in an original paper. Their "Bright Minds…

Culture Philosophy

To Be, Or Not To Be…Free: Sam Harris & Jerry Coyne On Free Will — Guest Post by Mariano Grinbank

Mariano Grinbank is a Judeo-Christian apologist who knows when to say he's not sorry. See this video). Lack of free will is a trope that is growing in importance in…

Culture Philosophy Statistics

Freeman Dyson, NPR, TSA X-rays, Northwestern University’s Bachelor Party

The Lady Tasting Tea continues tomorrow. Freeman Dyson Speaks From our man-on-the-spot WS comes this link to an interview with Freeman Dyson regarding his work "In Praise of Heretics." That…

Gespenst on Why I Don’t Want To Be Made To Support IsraelApril 19, 2024
Heresolong, We're talking about modern Israel here.
Jim Fedako on The Week In Doom: The Distraction Of Truth EditionApril 19, 2024
"Critics 'are not merely authoritarian, they demonstrate pervasive normative rigidity that comes from Christian fear of judgement,'" says Boghossian while…
Heresolong on Why I Don’t Want To Be Made To Support IsraelApril 19, 2024
"Israel was created as a result of the Balfour declaration with Britain. " Might want to read up on the…
Incitadus on The Week In Doom: The Distraction Of Truth EditionApril 19, 2024
What a set of pricelessly insane headlines one hardly knows where to begin but remember the sole intention is to…
RussO on The Week In Doom: The Distraction Of Truth EditionApril 19, 2024
Maher has evidently never heard of the word "viewpoint". One can infer that, if they decided to blatantly cheat her…