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Insanity & Doom Update X
Item The UK continues its slide into bat-guano crazy: "Human Rights Committee Draft General Comment No. 36 on article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, on…
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Quack Cures for What Doesn’t Ail Us — The Video of the Year!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8CH50L7lPg This was my presentation from 35th Annual Doctors for Disaster Preparedness meeting, August 12, 2017, New Orleans, LA. My computer's sound card died so I cannot hear my dulcet…
Posted inPhilosophy
The Offence Fallacy
The Offence Fallacy is perhaps the most popular bad argument used to dismiss Truths which are uncomfortable to us moderns. It is best illustrated in a real example. Here are…
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JASA: The Substitute for P-Values
The paper is finally out! The Substitute for p-Values. Here from the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Volume 112, 2017, Issue 519, Pages 897-898 is the abstract (this paper…
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The Coming Christian Unity
Stream: The Coming Christian Unity There is disunity in Christendom, and has been since at least the gnostic Cerinthus around 100 anno Domini gained a small following by teaching that…
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How To Resolve All Probability Paradoxes: Apples In Sack Example
Via Alexander Bogomolny?: At 1 minute to midnight 10 apples fall into a sack. The same happens at half a minute to midnight, then at a quarter minute to midnight,…
Posted inPhilosophy SAMT
Summary Against Modern Thought: Angels Are Born Knowing
See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. Before you…
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Insanity & Doom Update IX
Item University looks to add diversity rating to faculty evals Ball State University's Faculty Council plans to allow students to rate the inclusiveness of classroom environments on end-of-semester evaluations... While…