The Great Grand Bluff Of Science
Everybody knows the story of the turtles. The earth is held up by four large elephants, some say, which stand on the shell of an enormous turtle. When asked what the turtle was standing on, the answer...
View ArticleExperts want to take uteruses out of women and put them into men
To read today’s article, it is helpful to recall that in the context of biology and medicine the prefix trans can always be translated by not a or just not. Try it below. Keep this helpful tip in mind...
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The Closer To REALITY, The Closer To Reality
There are any number of proofs of this proposition: The closer to Reality, the closer to reality. Here’s one, recalling first that there is always a +/- to all surveys, which makes getting excited...
View ArticleThe Many Troubles With Science: A Conversation With Jaap Hanekamp About Our...
The many troubles of science are these: Philosophy; Scientism; Utopianism; Catastrophism; Gnosticism; Faithlessness. My pal Jaap Hanekamp and I are writing a book on science, entitled—wait for it—Title...
View ArticleScience As Salvation?
Say there, sisters and brothers. Ever have a “peak” experience? If you know what I mean. While engaged with Science, that is. You did? Then you might of lost track of time while doing this Science...
View ArticleSex With Dogs & Other Critters Back In Vogue, Thanks To Academic Peter Singer
Very long time readers will know that we warned that the creation of the notion of “sexual orientation”, and the criminalizing of “discrimination” against “sexual orientations”, logically implied that...
View ArticleWhat Makes A Casino Gamble Different Than Making A Decision Under Uncertainty?
We continue with our week of pleasant Thanksgiving topics. A cop in the police procedural Hell Is A City (start around 54 minutes) discerned one of the bad guys he was chasing would show up at a...
View ArticleDoom For The Doomsday Argument
Heard of the Doomsday Argument, sometimes also called the Carter Catastrophe? It claims to be able to name the date, with a certain confidence, at which mankind dies off. It has been the subject of a...
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A Christmas Carol Revisited — Guest Post by Richard Law
Richard Law is a retired web engineer and writer living in Switzerland. ‘Tis the season for Charles Dickens’ (1812-1870) deservedly popular tale of the time-travels of Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas...
View ArticleThe Frequency Interpretation Of Probability Is False: Some Reasons Contra von...
What is the chance that “Donald Trump wins the 2024 Presidential election”? Impossible to say, says Richard von Mises, because the event is singular and must be embedded in an infinite collection for...
View ArticleHow Failing To Butcher Your Child Became “Child Abuse”
Three females, which I believe is significant, took to the pages of the journal Pediatrics and argued that failing to have a surgeon mutilate your child (for a large fee) is child abuse. The...
View ArticleHow Not To Think Like A Bayesian Rationalist
Lisping Rationalists When I read people like Eliezer Yudkowsky and Scott Alexander it becomes clear to me how the French could have built a Temple of Reason during The Terror. Constructed, you recall,...
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Our Base Metaphors & Analogies Used In Science Have Outlived Their...
Metaphors and analogies exhaust themselves. No matter how useful they are as guides to thought, pushed too far they can loosen our grip on Reality or lead to stagnation, and they can even cause error...
View ArticleHow “The Science” Is Created By Not Understanding Belief & Decision Are Not...
Stick with me on this not-so-easy subject, because I’m going to reveal a trick used to make you “Follow the Science!” Belief is an act. Uncertainty is a state. Decision is a choice. Probability is a...
View ArticleDavid Deutsch Rediscovers The Worst Argument In The World
You can read the whole story at Jim Franklin’s place of how the late and lamented David Stove held a contest for the Worst Argument In The World. In [Stove’s] marking scheme, half the marks went to the...
View ArticleWhat The Psychic Theory Of Sheep & Goats Tells Us About Our Most Cherished...
Here is a true story. See if it rings any bells. Not in the story itself, which you likely won’t know. I mean see if it sounds like anything you hear about daily. Early psychic research (card guessing...
View ArticleChristian Accelerationism
Perhaps you have seen the term accelerationism used by some members of Team Reality. The idea, simplified, is that the system is lurching toward a leftist singularity, and that “If it were done when...
View ArticleIf You Think Evolution Thought Of Thinking, Think Again
There is a popular argument that says that because man evolved, his thoughts do not guarantee truth, and that his inclinations to like or agree with an argument reflect what is best for his survival,...
View ArticleWhat Parts Of Reality Does Science Describe, And Which Parts Are Merely...
A rose would not smell as sweet if it was called, as it likely is called in German, a sourbloodpetal. Or whatever. Naming things, getting the good names for things, brings with it many victories. In...
View ArticleWhy Attempts To Control Opinion Cause Opinion To Diverge
From Mars, John Carter reports in a wonderful essay discussing the Regime’s attempts at manipulation says this: People don’t like being gaslit. The psychological techniques used by salesmen, con men,...
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