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The Navy Becomes Woke
China is rapidly building its navy, and now has two aircraft carriers, double Russia and France's counts. Not that we can expect to go to war with France anytime soon.…
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The Aggravations Of Experts
The radio had on a woman frightened about passing on coronadoom to her kids via breast milk. That the lady was fearful isn't surprising given the constant bombardment of coronadoom…
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Peer Review Explained In Brilliant Video
https://twitter.com/GenieOfGenes/status/1233047369303851009 I beg you will watch this at least twice. The "And if they want to publish they have to pay a shitload of money for it" refers to page…
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We’re Almost Always Right; They’re Almost Always Wrong; Yet They’re Always Believed — Coronadoom Update CXI
I PAT MY BACK Before we begin our main update, allow me to congratulate myself. https://twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/status/1472385507099246592 A screenshot of the picture, in case it disappears, is here. I have said…
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Lockdowns Saved Trillions! …. Say Models
Joe Nocera --- read his Lockdowns Haven't Proved They’re Worth the Havoc --- sent us an article from the Washington Post which discusses how much money the lockdowns saved us.…
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Mathematicians Can’t Solve Reality Equation, Want To Ban Predictive Policing
Remember how, despite warnings to the contrary, many of you thought STEM was safe from the holiness spirals and vice signaling working its way through academic like salmonella through a…
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Why Simple Models Are Better Than Complex In Finance, Climate, Coronadoom & More
Right after yesterday's post on (again) why rationalism and reason fail as philosophies, and on their severe limitations, I read an article profiling Gerd Gigerenzer and his "simple rules". It…
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There Is No Such Thing As “Systemic Racism” Against Blacks
Every major corporation, celebrity, university, politician, association, and even the American Meteorological Society, which just started a Culture and Inclusion Cabinet, issued statements professing their solidarity with blacks and lamenting…
