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Will The Religious Out-Breed Us All?

Thanks to long-time reader and contributer Ari Schwartz for bringing this to our attention. "It is widely agreed that religion has biological foundations---that belief in the supernatural, obedience to authority…

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Why Memes Are Stupid: The Short Version

In 1976, in his The Selfish Gene, a book which revealed that most of us are slaves to our genes, biologist Richard Dawkins "discovered" the meme which, in one definition,…

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Weekly Mail

I receive regularly a lot of red hot tips from regular readers, but as the week goes on they are often buried by newer mail. Thus I will try out…

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Earth Has Rights! Guest Post by John Henry Briggs

Since I am away out west, I sent intrepid reporter and number two son John Henry Briggs to the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at CUNY Graduate Center, where…

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Can Telomeres Predict How Long You Will Live?

No, they can't. Not exactly, and perhaps not with sufficient precision to be useful to you. But there is a new company called Life Length who will sell you, for…

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The Gold Standard Of Experimentation Exposed As Pyrite

Everybody says the "gold standard" of experimentation, and especially clinical trials, is the randomized controlled trial. A typical view is that "A Randomized Controlled Trial is an experiment or study…

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Is Feminist Epistemology Different Than Male Epistemology?

Euclid gave us a gloriously simple proof that there are an infinite number of primes. A prime number, of course, is a positive number that can be evenly divided only…

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Tall men in planes

I am off to Spain today, for the conference, to present my unfinished, and unfinishable, talk. Why unfinishable? I am asking people to supply estimates for certain probabilities (see the…

SHAWN E MARSHALL on The Lesson Scientists Never LearnDecember 24, 2024
I don't believe Time exists as a physical entity I don't believe the speed of light is constant I cannot…
Johnno on The Lesson Scientists Never LearnDecember 24, 2024
BRIGGS, YOU FOOL! AND ALL YOU FOOLISH EXPURTS TOO!!! There is also a sixtly! SIXTLY - A novice can assess…
hudbwu on The Lesson Scientists Never LearnDecember 24, 2024
Well this was a cherry article (not sarcasm). Merry Christmas!
Johnno on How The Enlightenment Led To Contraception (And Other Forms of Anti-Natal Behavior)December 24, 2024
A better word than "insane", would be "Satanic," because we would do a disservice to the actually clinically insane, who…
Paul murphy on The Lesson Scientists Never LearnDecember 23, 2024
Nonsense - but merry Christmas!