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Global Warming’s Shark Jumping Moment
Travel day today, so something light and airy---and incomplete. President Obama, presumably sacrificing a tee time, went to keyboard and typed these words: This is a big moment in the…
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That Curious Synod Relatio
The extraordinary Synod released into the wild Monday its draft relatio which caused a lot of emotions to soar. The Left cheered, "This is the beginning!", while the Right said,…
Posted inPhilosophy Statistics
Truth, Knowledge, Belief, & Gettier Problems
Proof Isn't All That The first section can be skipped for those who know what necessary versus conditional truth is. I recall an anecdote about John von Neumann which had…
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Don’t Say “Natural Variability”
Word that the climate of doom we were promised (repeatedly) has not obtained has begun leaking out. Climatologists have known this for quite some time, but now even environmental activists…
Posted inPhilosophy SAMT
Summary Against Modern Thought: God Is His Own Essence
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. The soup…
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A Common, Unfortunate, Avoidable, Devastating Error In Statistics
It's a doozy, this error of ours. So ubiquitous is it that it's hardly noticeable. Yet it is sinking us into scientism and wild overconfidence. Every time it appears, both…
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The Decline & Fall Of Radical Catholicism; Or, What The Synod Will Have Wrought
Update Comments restored. Wordpress is acting strange. The first part of the title isn't mine, but belongs to James Hitchcock who wrote a book of the same name, published in…
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The Coming Cancer Panic
Maybe it won't be cancer. Maybe it will be irumodic syndrome or Clarke's disease. Or maybe it will be something else. But probably it will be cancer. If I had…