How’d We Do On Our 2019 Predictions?
A strong no prize this year. Nobody did well enough. Not enough specific predictions, or those that were specific did not come to pass. Doom predictions are too easy: they…
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SAT’s Adversity Score New Way To Enforce Racial Quotas
The College Board will soon attach Pity Points to SAT scores. The Pity Points will be used to suggest that those who scored poorly did not in fact score poorly…
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Can We Contain The Contagion At Universities?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zjckTqh730 There might still be time. We could still save the university. But we must act now! Well, I say this, but I don't believe it. I only say it…
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Case Study Of How Easy It Is To Go Wrong
We used to talk a lot about the amygdala here: Yet Another Study "Proves" Liberal, Conservative Brain Differences (wee ps, amygdalas), Scientists Suddenly Discover Men Don't Understand Women (wee ps,…
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This Week In Doom — Opioid Marketing Edition
Item Accused NY Murderer Gets Charge Dropped Thanks To New Infanticide Law But part of the new infanticide law that Governor Andrew Cuomo just signed "removes abortion from the state's…
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The Week In Doom — You Will Love Butt Brother Edition
Item Blurred lines: A pregnant man's tragedy tests gender notions When the man arrived at the hospital with severe abdominal pains, a nurse didn't consider it an emergency, noting that…
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Citation Deplatforming All Men Women Don’t Like
The Chronicle of Higher Education (A Cathedral&tm; publication) asks, and asks in earnest, "Academic Ethics: Should Scholars Avoid Citing the Work of Awful People?" by Brian Leiter. Across academe, many…
