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The Myth Of Killer Mercury: Guest Post By Willie Soon & Paul Driessen

Willie Soon has graciously allowed us to reprint his and Paul Driessen's editorial that ran in the 25 May 2011 Wall Street Journal. Dr Soon received double our normal rate…

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India Aborting Girls At Full Speed: Sex Selection And Demographics

Science is great. It---"it" is always an it, an invisible entity, a guiding sapience, an intelligence that can be looked to for guidance---can now us tell the sex of a…

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The Trolley Problem And Experimental Philosophy

The Trolley Problem, as given by Eric Schwitzgebel (as part of a larger survey): You are standing by the railroad tracks when you notice an empty boxcar rolling out of…

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Wishcasting The End Of The World: Update

Wishcasting is when a forecast or prediction is shaded in the direction the forecaster or predictor wants the event to happen. For example, if you forecast this weekend's weather, you…

Statistics

Can Telomeres Predict How Long You Will Live?

No, they can't. Not exactly, and perhaps not with sufficient precision to be useful to you. But there is a new company called Life Length who will sell you, for…

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Belief In God “Rooted” In Human Nature Say Academics

New research has shown---and by "research" I mean a fact long known to citizens is revealed to academics who attach a p-value to it and publish it---"that suggests that religion…

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Food Deserts: Millions Of Californians Starving Themselves Into Obesity

The blubber is flowing in California. So says that State's venerable University, Los Angeles division. It's an epidemic! Both excessive fatness "increased significantly in just six years". This isn't the…

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“I Can See The Future!”

The future begins tomorrow. This being so, it doesn't seem especially difficult to say what will happen in that uncertain land. Weathermen, and their noble sisters the weatherwomen, daily dispatch…

Briggs on The Lesson Scientists Never LearnDecember 23, 2024
Thanks, Bruce. I've only just now started reading his papers, such as the staring ones. We need to wean him…
Cary Cotterman on The Lesson Scientists Never LearnDecember 23, 2024
Anthropogenic climate change cultism, corona virus hysteria, and transgender "affirmative care" dogma should have taught us to dismiss anyone who…
bruce g charlton on The Lesson Scientists Never LearnDecember 23, 2024
I was interested in Sheldrake from early in his career - and saw him give a lecture in 1984, which…
SHAWN E MARSHALL on House Cramnibus Funds New Follow-The-Science PanicsDecember 23, 2024
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The Lesson Scientists Never Learn – William M. Briggs on Emergence Is Substance; Entanglement Is Substance: Science Is HealingDecember 23, 2024
[…] Since it is a slow week, I was thinking about variations on Rupert Sheldrake’s idea of morphic resonance, and…