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Coronavirus Update VII — We’ve Got Models (Update)
All the good stuff, caveats, code, data sources and explanations are linked, some in Update III, and the most important in Update II, Update IV, Update V, Update VI, and…
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The Week In Doom — We Are All Seattle Now Edition
Item KOMO News Special Seattle is Dying KOMO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b53uiRFq4Ds If you were at all sanguine about the future, I beg you will watch this video. Item Inside the online community…
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Another Example Proving Academia Is Worse Than You Thought
This is a slow week, so I do not now want to continue the discussion of what the best replacement of academia is. That is needs replacing I take as…
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A Joke About Race As Social Construct
Turns out Bhutan bans opinion polls. So I thought of making a poll asking this question: Should opinion polls be banned? * Yes, * No. Now there is only one…
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All Rhodes Lead To Rome: Part II — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
Read Part I Let's think a minute about empires. They have to have a starting point. A point where they grow beyond a national boundary and take on a momentum…
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Woke Nature
It has been deemed as unscientific to say that a person's genitals determines their sex. Genes, too, have been disallowed as scientific evidence. Nature says so, and they are the…
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Insanity & Doom Update XLV
Item How Identity Politics Is Harming the Sciences A scientist at UCLA reports: "All across the country the big question now in STEM is: how can we promote more women…
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The Week In Doom — Diversity Statement Edition
Item More Colleges Are Asking Scholars for Diversity Statements. Here's What You Need to Know (emphasis mine) The statements tend to be one page, maybe two. In them, scholars are…
