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Roger Kimball’s Challenge
The famous writer Roger Kimball has issued a challenge: Name the silliest argument to be offered by a serious academic in the last 25 years and to be taken up…
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Stop making babies to reduce global warming
The other day, as a favor, I posted a scientific article from a friend of mine, Dr H. Harrister, PhD, who conclusively showed that fitter people have larger carbon footprints…
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Wall Street Journal: Better than a statistics textbook.
On Thursday 14 August, the Wall Street Journal had two excellent articles, which expertly described the statistics and uncertainty of their topics. Several readers have wrote in asking for an…
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Extremely fit have larger carbon footprints than do couch potatoes: scientific study
The following is a scientific study: Extremely fit have larger carbon footprints than do couch potatoes by Dr H. Harrister, BS, MS, PhD, OBWAG 1. INTRODUCTION Ever since the Supreme…
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Surely, you wouldn’t go and see An American Carol?
Yes, I would. And don't call me Shirley. David Zucker, the guy who brought us Airplane! and Naked Gun, will be back on October 3rd with An American Carol. Stephen…
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The B.S. octopus
Jonathan Bate, of Standpoint, recently wrote an essay "The wrong idea of a university": It used to work like this. Dr Bloggs, the brilliant scholar who had solved the problem…
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Don’t be so sure
A number of mixed items today, mostly with the theme that Experts are often too sure of themselves. The organization GRASP, among many others, until yesterday warned of the "imminent…
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Wrong -> Immoral -> Illegal?
Says Paul Krugman, a writer for a local New York paper, The only way we’re going to get action, I’d suggest, is if those who stand in the way of…