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Is This Sign Hate Speech?
A "controversial" sign sets the words, "If you think there is no God you'd better be right!" over small picture of flames. News reports say the sign was in front…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Things Which Block Truth
See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide. Chapter 4 (1) WHILE then the truth of the intelligible things of God is twofold, one to which…
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The Moral Case Against Designer Babies
"Should prospective parents seek information about gene variants that increase the risk their children will develop diseases as adults? Should physicians provide that information?" So asks Ronald Bailey, only just…
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What That Spurious Correlation Website Tells Us About Statistics
Many (thanks!) readers sent links to Tyler Vigen's Spurious Correlations, whose motto is "Discover a new correlation - an interesting spurious correlation each day!" My favorite is tying the yearly…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: What We Can Know And What We Cannot
See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide. Chapter Two (1) Now of all human pursuits, that of wisdom is the most perfect, the most sublime,…
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The Consensus Fallacy
Here is the word-for-word opening in the Vox "explanatory journalism" tidbit "John Oliver shows how to debate climate deniers": That climate change is occurring, and that humans are the primary…
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Ask A Scientific Ethicist: Boy Who Thinks He’s A Boy & More
This week, three letters from concerned readers. Bobby's Bad Behavior Dear Scientific Ethicist, Our eight-year old child has been acting out, speaking out of turn, making shapes of weapons with…
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Frequentists Are Closet Bayesians: Confidence Interval Edition
Actually, all frequentists and Bayesians are logical probabilists, but if I put that in the title, few would believe it. A man might call himself an Anti-Gravitational Theorist, a science…