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Celeste Greig Fired Over Rape Comments

A hoard of angry abortion supporters---one wonders if there are other kinds---succeeded in removing Celeste Greig from her post as president of the state's Republican Assembly. Greig's thought crime? In…

Book review Philosophy

Cosmology: Peter Kreeft’s Summa Philosophica Part IV

Part III Remember, we're doing summaries of summaries here; only bare sketches are possible. Buy his book for more detail. Question IV is Cosmology. The most contentious scientific question is…

Statistics

Statistics “Proves” Men And Women Are The Same

There are just as many women in prison as men. So too are there equal numbers of male and female ob/gyn patients: this is because the sexual aparatuses on both…

Culture Philosophy

The Argument Against Same-Sex Marriage, Part I

In a further effort to increase my leisure time (by reducing my chance of employment), presented here for your edification an argument against same-sex "marriage" in the form of an…

Statistics

Climategate 3.0—Update: Hacker A Coder?

Whoever it was that snatched the cache of emails from prominent climatologists and created Climategate 1.0, then 2.0 has come forward, in a sort of way, to begin Climategate 3.0.…

Fun Philosophy

Richard Dawkins Is A Dangerous Man: Update

I'll tell you how. He makes people feel smarter than they are. And in our world of self-esteem substituting for accomplishment and ability, his villainous power is especially poisonous. For…

Statistics

Sam Harris Asks, “Can Science Answer Moral Questions?” No, Sam, It Cannot

I was having a back-and-forth on Twitter with Craig Mazin â€(@clmazin) about Sam Harris's claim that morality is a scientific and not a metaphysical question. As evidence, Mazin pointed me…

Book review Philosophy

General Ethics: Peter Kreeft’s Summa Philosophica Part VII

Read Part VI. Remember, we're doing summaries of summaries here; only bare sketches are possible. Buy his book for more detail. Question VII is fun: General Ethics. That morality really…

Johnno on Environmental Experts To Rip Out Trees, Build Solar Electric Plant In Snow Belt To “Save The Environment”January 8, 2025
Shawn Marshall, it all started with the giddy-ness that is heliocentrism, the one model to rule them all and in…
Johnno on Experts: Please Begin Panicking Over Bird Flu. Us: No. Experts: (Sob)January 8, 2025
But Briggs, have you tested your article for faks and Mrs. Information? Better hurry, these services may not be available…
Yancey Ward on Register Your Predictions For 2025!January 8, 2025
A bit late to it: (1) King Charles dissolves the government in June forcing new elections in the UK which…
John McKeon on Register Your Predictions For 2025!January 8, 2025
One more prediction: Briggs will start using a better blogging platform. One that can perform computations LIVE in the post…
Milton Hathaway on Experts: Please Begin Panicking Over Bird Flu. Us: No. Experts: (Sob)January 8, 2025
I consider myself an Expert in skepticism, and I like to apply it well beyond my area of Expertise. Perhaps…