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On The Confirmation Bias Of Experts & Doctors
There is a thing in bad science, and indeed in all life, called confirmation bias. I've said many times that all scientists know and believe in the concept, just as…
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First There Was Vaccine Passports, Now They Want Carbon Passports
Experts creating the coronadoom may or may not have designed it as a weapon. They did, however, design it to kill. Maybe it got out accidentally---stupidity is always a likely…
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How Whiteness Arises From Critical Race Theorists Decrying Measurement White Supremacist
The irony of calling the best parts of Western culture "white supremacist" is lost on debased race hustlers. Probably because recognizing the full logical implication of the charge requires just…
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Celebrity Scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson Speaks — Excerpt From Everything You Believe Is Wrong
This excerpt comes in Chapter 20, Science. First comes the Science Is Self-Correcting Fallacy, followed by the My Grant Was Funded Therefore My Theory Is True Fallacy, which is a…
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Claiming To Be Able To Blame Weather Events On Global Warming
This is not a big story, but it's worth highlighting because of the pernicious effects of science journalism, which suffers from the same faults as political journalism. Emphasis on extremes,…
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You’ve Heard Of Structural Racism, Now There’s Structural Sexism
Two academic non-males have invented, or are at least giving a good work-out, to the neologism structural sexism, maybe because structural racism has been so lucrative to academic careers. You…
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Class 4: Uncertainty & Probability Theory: The Logic of Science: The Return of Logic
Link to all Classes. Video Links: YouTube Twitter Rumble This week I really could have benefited from seeing people's reactions. Ah, well. HOMEWORK It is true that "If p then…
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Sadly, Coronadoom Is Not The 2020 Leading Cause Of Death
It came as a surprise to many that people in 2020 died of other diseases than the coroandoom. Can you believe it? Not only that, but more of them died…
