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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…

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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…

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Polish Cheers And Pajamas

Statistics show---and as we know by now, these cannot be wrong---that Saturday is the least likely day that people like to ponder statistics. Traffic on this blog is at its…

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The Great Bayesian Switch

Update: See this post on the definition of confidence and credible intervals. Submitted for your approval, a new paper. A polemic describing in nascent terms the paradise that awaits us…

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We Are All Dogmatic

Huffington Post's Chris Stedman is convinced that dogmatism, which he opposes in all its "forms", is a bad thing, and that to criticize "dogmatic principles and practices is essentially important…

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Predictions For 2011. How’d We do?

Last January 1st I asked for everybody to provide verifiable predictions for the year. Time for reckoning! Tomorrow I'll ask us to provide predictions for 2012, so hold off on…

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Merry Federal Holiday Of December 25th That Shall Remain Nameless!

Here's proof that the unnameable Day's---a.k.a. "holiday", a.k.a. "holidays", a.k.a. (rare) "holy day"---spirit is in all of us. Plus sure evidence that Shakespeare was right (yet again). One grand lady…

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The Beauty Contest

Update We'll leave this on top for another day. No theories thus far are correct. The sun was now a steady companion, only occasionally obscured by clouds. The snow was…

john on Homeopathic PostMay 10, 2024
"Nothingness is not nothing. It is the same with emptiness. Emptiness is not nothing. It is the ground of everything."
Brian (bulaoren) on Are Caps on Atmospheric Emissions of Human Activities Equal to Traffic Rules? — Guest Post by Jaap HanekampMay 10, 2024
Clearly, a good first step would be a ban on legumes. These malevolent plants are known to contaminate our soils…
Zundfolge on Are Caps on Atmospheric Emissions of Human Activities Equal to Traffic Rules? — Guest Post by Jaap HanekampMay 10, 2024
Even if we accepted the argument that these emissions laws are analogous to traffic laws, if the government set the…
McChuck on Homeopathic PostMay 10, 2024
Safe and effective!
bob sykes on Homeopathic PostMay 10, 2024
It must be April 1st. The text will not load, but the comments do.