One of our main themes is Uncertainty. In short, there is not enough of it, especially in Science. Which is to say, there is a surfeit of certainty. We drown in false […]
Here’s How They Say Conservatives Are Destroying Science
My favorite headline of late is from Stat, which I’ll reveal in a brief moment. First, as I was discovering that headline, I saw the site’s top crawl, which asked us to […]
First Look At The FBI Crime Stats For 2022: I Don’t Even Have To Explain Per Capita
The FBI released its crime report for 2022, and I thought it instructive for us to examine homicide numbers. Homicides from 1985–2022. Now it is, or should be, obvious that these are […]
Physicist Discovers He Has No Free Will: Chooses To Write Book To Say He Cannot Make Choices
Robert Sapolsky, a Stanford academic, took decades—decades, he says—to conclude he does not have free will. He chose now as the time to tell us of his decades-long, fruitless search for himself. […]
Experts Addle Kids’ Minds Over “Climate Change”
Question from Anon: Why are the left so afraid of climate change? What is they want to preserve exactly? The whole concept doesn’t pass the simplest credibility check. They want to preserve […]
New Paper Claiming Biological Sex A Fiction Has Normie Academics Pretending To Be Shocked
A new peer-reviewed paper is making normie, which is to say not fully woke, academics to say “Yikes!”. The existence of this paper, as you’ll see, adds another shovelful of evidence on […]
The World’s Best 100% Guaranteed Unpredictable Perfect Random Number Generator
“Random” numbers are in hot demand. They’re needed, for instance, in cryptography, to keep things like your bank account secure, and in science, where they’re used in simulating complex systems. Yet to […]
Over-Certainties In Global Estimates of Vaccine Efficacy
How can you tell if a vaccine for a bug is effective? It’s not so easy; indeed, it can be excruciatingly difficult. At the individual person level you’d need to measure all […]
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