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The Imposing-Their-Beliefs Fallacy
Perry trying to impose a curious view. I’m on the road for the next several days and won’t always have access to the Internet. So I’m reposting a series of classic fallacies. Regular service to resume...
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The Great Day Is Here! Uncertainty Meets The World
The Great Day—the Day yearned for by all humanity, or at least weakly anticipated by you, Dear Reader—has arrived! Let the trumpet sound and celebration begin! The release of Uncertainty: The Soul of...
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Angels—or Aliens—Did Not Make The World
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Summary Against Modern Thought: The Diversity Of Merits & Demerits
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Uncertainty (#1 New Release in Statistics) Book Page — Here Are The Details....
This isn’t the book page. This is. Or you can buy it here. The page is permanently located at the menu bar at the top of the page, at the far left. Look for Uncertainty Book. Comments are welcome on...
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Summary Against Modern Thought: The First Cause Of The Distinction Of Things
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Don’t Panic, But Intelligent Design Is Trivially True (Breathe, Breathe…)
What I mean by intelligent design (which is perhaps not what you mean by it) is that All There Is, along with the Way Things Are, which describes the means by which All There Is changes, had to come...
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The Dangers Of Sam Harris’s Anti-Free Will View
Sam Harris, meat puppet?. But if he’s a puppet, who’s pulling the strings? Received this email from Justin. I’ve edited it only to correct the typos my enemies placed in my Inbox. Hi William, I am...
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Intellectual Creatures & The Universe’s...
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How To Make An Atheist Cry
Before I expose the secret of atheist lachrymosity, let me tell you how you won’t make a physicist cry. Tell a physicist that there would be no gravity without G. “G” is the gravitational “constant”...
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There Is No Scientific Method
Title is lifted—swiped, stolen, nicked: a point to emphasize—from an essay in what Father Z rightfully calls Hell’s Bible by one James Blachowicz. Turns out old Willy S was right, the devil can cite...
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Summary Against Modern Thought: There Is Free Will
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The Difference Between Essential And Empirical Models
One, two, … I was having a back-and-forth with a colleague on modeling types (see this post for a modeling hierarchy) and falsifiability. It’s crucial we distinguish essential and empirical models, but...
View ArticleIs Most Published Research Wrong? Yep. Here’s Why
One of my students—my heart soars like a hawk!—sent me the video linked above. I’ll assume you’ve watched it, as my comments make reference to it. About the dismal effects of p-values, the video...
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Falsifiability Is Not That Useful
False is not True We spoke earlier of falsification and why I didn’t think it was an especially useful criterion. My tweets about it inspired Deborah Mayo, who advocates for the new way of statistics...
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Essence Is Of The Essence
This is Part II of my answer to Mayo’s quip. See Part I. Obviously, it’s only a wee fraction of what could be said. Are you you? I do not ask in jest. Consider that yesterday parts of...
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Intellect & Free Will
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Stream: Global Warming Alarmists Plead: Save the Children By Not Having Them
Look at all that greenhouse gas! Today’s post is at The Stream: Global Warming Alarmists Plead: Save the Children By Not Having Them. Global warming will, of course, doom us all. That is, if the models...
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Our Intellects Are Not Material
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Intellectual Substances Are Immaterial
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