Bringing Order To Disordered Views Of Entropy
This is the second post reviewing Sabine Hossenfelder’s new book Existential Physics. First is my criticism of Many Worlds. If you are short of time, skip to the bottom today. Entropy, some say, is a...
View ArticleEmergence Comes From Nowhere, Does Nothing, Goes Nowhere, But Still Becomes...
We return to reviewing Sabine Hossenfelder’s, a.k.a. Old Hoss’s, new book Existential Physics. First part (many worlds), second part (entropy). If you knew all there is to know about hydrogen alone,...
View ArticleThe Multiverse Hides The Problem It Was Supposed To Solve, And Calls It Solved
Let’s end the review of Sabine Hossenfelder’s book. We did some already: Emergence, Entropy, and Many Worlds. With this post, we’ll have covered the most interesting topics. Old Hoss, and many like...
View ArticleThe Randomized In Randomized Controlled Trials Is Pure Superstition; Bad Magic
Why You Need To Read This My dear readers, a complex subject today, presented in the guise of a book review. We are increasingly beset by lunatic psychotic sociopathic rulers wielding The Science like...
View ArticleReviewed: The Great Awakening Vs The Great Reset by Alexander Dugin
The National Association of Scholars is hosting a webinar this Friday, 3 PM EST: Is Science Broken? featuring Yours Truly. Free, but you have to register. Given that Vladimir Putin’s pet bear’s psychic...
View ArticleCrazy Eddie’s Craziest Scams
You must have seen the ads (like this). Even if you didn’t live in or around New York, they were infamous. They featured radioman Jerry Carroll—I was disappointed to learn he was not Crazy Eddie...
View ArticleSocial Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell Reviewed
Thomas Sowell agrees that Everything The Woke Believe Is Wrong. And the reason they are wrong is that they rely on fallacies to justify themselves. Lots and lots of fallacies. Some are based on bad...
View ArticleThe Politics Of Prudence by Russel Kirk Reissued — And Reviewed
There have been many purges on the right, led for instance by National Review and William F Buckley, removing from polite society those who were considered “extreme” elements. People who would...
View ArticleHow Our Dictator Arrives: Surfing On A Wave Of Paperwork — Review of the...
The list of authors who have theories on how civilizations end is not small: Ibn Kaldun, Spengler, Toynbee, Strauss and Howe, Turchin, Glubb all stress that civilizations have existed but not longer...
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Worst Science Fiction of All Time
Shoot to kill July 1995 I wrote this in 1995 and had it posted to my student website at Cornell. I thought that it was lost forever, and I only managed to find it because several people archived it....
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Forget Lie Detectors: Use This New Book — Guest Post by Kent Clizbe (Title by...
I’ve known Kent for many years, and we have worked together on various ideas of so-called lie detectors. I and he are both skeptics. I am because I have had them in line with my high falutin’ security...
View ArticleEmpire Of Hatred: A Study of the Revolution by Richard Greenhorn Reviewed
Richard Greenhorn says, and we believe him, that there have been five, count ’em, five revolutions in the West, each piling on to the destructive forces of the previous. These five are (in my words):...
View ArticleScience After Babel by David Berlinski Reviewed
David Berlinski is one of our best critics of the neo-Darwinian theory of evolution. He spends some time on this in his new book, which is a collection of pieces from hither and yon on a variety of...
View ArticleThe True Story of Juan Diego & the Conversion of Mexico — Guest Post by Ianto...
I have a problem. Two, actually. The first is numeric. The second, chronologic. Both relate to an epochal series of historic events occurring nearly 500 years ago, in Mesoamerica. My problems are in...
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