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Everything You Know Is Wrong — Book Excerpt! There Is No Wisdom In Crowds
The most controversial book of the year is still on its way! I found two other publishers willing to give it a look, and they're reviewing it now. If they…
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Those-Who-Enjoy-Sodomy Attacked With Tanning Salons! Wee P-Values Confirm
To prove that we are indeed doomed, and that we haven't even come close to hitting the bottom of the bottomless Pit Of Progress, this Newsweek headline: TANNING SALONS COULD…
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Normalising (Self-Willed) Loneliness: Vladimir Solovyov’s Antichrist and the Emerging Globalist Society — Guest Post by Jaap Hanekamp
"False is the dawn that promises anything False is the hope and the talk of eternity and spring ... ... The stars are strange and this isn't home" In the…
Posted inPhilosophy
Hung Jury: The Verdict On Uncertainty
This invited paper (which I forgot to post!) appeared in the festschrift for Hung T. Nguyen, previously at New Mexico State University and now at Chiang Mai University, to celebrate…
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The Week In Doom: Hemlock Edition
Dooms other than coronadooms. Item On Earth Day, pope says nature will not forgive our trespasses Pope Francis made an impassioned plea for protection of the environment on Wednesday's 50th…
Posted inPhilosophy
How Can Any Religion Have A Monopoly On Truth?
Soak this up (emphasis original): By the time she turned up in New York, [Justina Walford's] faith had long since unraveled, a casualty of overseas travel that made her question…
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Academics Demand Mandatory Chemical Moral Bioenhancement To Make You More Compliant To Coronadoom Restrictions
The New Mandatory Eugenics: Background We've heard a lot over the past decade from ethicists (so-called) and scientists (don't laugh) who aren't satisfied with human nature, they are not satisfied…
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Poor Heat
From our very own Ye Olde Statistician comes the tip, "As Rising Heat Bakes U.S. Cities, The Poor Often Feel It Most", a run-of-the-mill NPR weepie, but with a global…
