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Firearm Homicides Dropping.: There Is No Need For New Gun Restrictions.

I rarely ask this, but please link, forward, email, and favorite this post as widely as possible. See below for copying permission. This post originally ran 16 January 2013 with…

Philosophy Statistics

Precaution: Part V (Final)—Guest Post by J.C. Hanekamp

Read Part IV Trying to create an ideal world by precautionary design carries utopian overtones of a nostalgic streak, also known the pastoral ideal that is so well described by…

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Privatization Kills?: Or, Doctors Under Government Control Save More Lives?

Quick, answer this without thinking: which is better for your health, living under a communist regime or a capitalist system? If you said "communist", may I wager you're an academic?…

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Adjusted Mass Public Shootings per Decade Uncorrelated With Gun Ownership

Here are the Mass Public Shootings per Decade from the 1900s through 2012, adjusted for population. The rate is mass-shootings per million per decade, using the average population of the…

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Precaution: Part IV—Guest Post by J.C. Hanekamp

Read Part III. Science plays an interesting role in precautionary culture. Overall, science is looked at in our culture as a discerning field of advice in terms of numerous aspects…

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Precaution: Part III—Guest Post by J.C. Hanekamp

Read Part II. Precaution is essential, so the tale goes, to create policies and laws that focus on and tackle uncertainty that might be the foreboding of particular risks. The…

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Anthropogenic Forcing Signals Not Significant? New Polynomial Cointegration Test Paper

I have been asked by a number of people to comment on a new paper that purportedly shows that "statistical tests for global warming fails to find statistically significantly anthropogenic…

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Precaution: Part II—Guest Post by J.C. Hanekamp

For all the flurry surrounding precaution---being portrayed as a decisional/procedural instrument to protect human and environmental health from the (potential) dangers of human activities---the history shows that we are dealing…

Uncle Mike on England’s Rulers Insist Natives Must Assimilate To “Migrants”January 9, 2025
Gauss and Euler were not English, but that misses the point. Which is that any government that fails to protect…
Cary Cotterman on Register Your Predictions For 2025!January 9, 2025
1. There will be more assassination attempts on Trump. 2. Impeachment attempts on Trump will resume. 3. It won't rain…
Gail D Finke on Register Your Predictions For 2025!January 9, 2025
1) Kamala Harris will very briefly be the first woman president before Trump is inaugurated 2) Germany will try to…
SHAWN E MARSHALL on England’s Rulers Insist Natives Must Assimilate To “Migrants”January 9, 2025
Turin and Maxwell - two true extremely high intellects to add to your English Great Men.
Hun on England’s Rulers Insist Natives Must Assimilate To “Migrants”January 9, 2025
This "egalitarianism" does not insist that "all peoples are equal". I insists that all Whites* are inherently bad and all…