Culture – Page 190 – William M. Briggs

Scientism, Legalism and Precaution: Regulating Nutrition and Health Claims in Europe

Announcing a new paper, with official title "Scientism, Legalism and Precaution -- Contending with Regulating Nutrition and Health Claims in Europe" in European Food and Feed Law Review by Jaap…

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Friedrich A. Hayek’s Lecture “The Pretense of Knowledge”

This was reprinted in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend. I've chopped it into parts for commenting. To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the…

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On Dressing Well

Make that, "On Dressing Not So Well." Here is a picture from a mall in Santa Monica, first appearing in the Los Angeles Times. The article which surrounded this picture…

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Obamacare Predictions: How’d We Do So Far?

One of life's real pleasures, though it lessens us to admit it, is when we get to say I told you so. Nobody in the world, except those who believe…

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Students Eschewing Humanities In Favor Of Science

The Times is reporting that students are high-tailing it away from the humanities, scurrying into "STEM" departments. STEM is the educational buzzword of the day---theorists in education surf from fad…

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The Boston Globe’s Failed Assassination Of Willie Soon

Christopher Rowland, the Washington Bureau Chief for the Boston Globe, is not a child molester. The Boston Globe has covered child molestation stories, suspiciously at times when Rowland was with…

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What Happens When Research Yields Unpopular Findings

After learning the gabbling Stephan Lewandowsky was able to complain in the Associate for Psychological Science's Observer magazine that some loon called him a self-contradictory bad name, I became curious…

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The Supraterranean War On Sanity: Scientists Versus Civilians

Cast your mind back to 1980. Nobody, not a soul, knew that gaspers, coffin nails, and cancer sticks were bad for you.1 Tobacco companies used an advanced form of mind…

Joy on Register Your Predictions For 2025!January 5, 2025
Happy New Year. There are too any predictions, difficult to pick three. 1 Starmer won't be PM. 2 Trump will…
C-Marie on Register Your Predictions For 2025!January 5, 2025
Trust in God will increase due to earthquakes, waters surpassing their boundaries, temperatures rising and falling, government failing to meet…
Aaron on Register Your Predictions For 2025!January 5, 2025
Nice website! I get the super-efficient e-mail through substack and so have not been on this site in a while.…
Sander van der Wal on Register Your Predictions For 2025!January 4, 2025
1) Germany's AfD will get so many votes in the februari election that the only possible government will be a…
pouncer on Register Your Predictions For 2025!January 4, 2025
1) No New States! Trump's supposed efforts to buy/conquer/add Greenland, Canada, and Panama to Imperial America will be revealed as…