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Antichrist, by Saint Robert Bellarmine, Reviewed
Some establishment media is still based: you can find good stuff if you know where to look. Like in the PI. Take this op-ed in the Manila Times, by one…
Posted inStatistics
Many Atheists Still Believe In Higher Powers—Whatever Those Are
A new report on atheists is of interest. It's "Understanding Unbelief: Atheists and agnostics around the world: Interim findings from 2019 research in Brazil, China, Denmark, Japan, the United Kingdom,…
Posted inCulture
What Happens If Doctors Keep Up The Killing
The Wall Street Journal interviewed a month ago Paul McHugh, now 87, who is a psychiatrist from Johns Hopkins, where he famously, or infamously, in the 70s closed that hospital's…
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The Week In Doom — Pope Reaches Out To Furries Edition
Item Francis "Lost Memory", Blasphemes God Who "Wants Transsexuals That Way" Confronted with the Zanchetta case, an Argentinean bishop, accused of homosexual abuses, and promoted and protected by Francis, he…
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Post-Approval Drug Failures: More Reasons To Eliminate P-values & Parameter-Centric Methods
Some comments on the JAMA: Internal Medicine article "An International Perspective on Drugs for Cancer: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times" by Richard Lehman. Drugs increase fast, and…
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The Limitations And Usefulness Of IQ
That Smarts Everybody knows that some people are smarter than others, and that some are teachable and some not. Well, some people do deny these facts, believing that if everybody…
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Stop Using P-values & Parameter-Centric Methods
P-values should be banned. Every use of them involves a fallacy or mistake in thinking. "P-values have some good uses." No, they don't. I used every as in every. "P-values…
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Researchers Claim Biological Test For Sex Doesn’t Exist
Advocacy and activist organizations goose statistics in their favor. The National Organization For Red-Haired Pickpockets is bound to arrive at a figure higher, and perhaps much higher, especially if donations…