Joe Biden’s Myopia Scientifically Linked To His Low IQ and Conservative Values

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  January 27th at 11:05 AM  | 

There’s no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy. The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults… Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found. Those ideologies, in turn, stress | Read More »

Welcome To The Liars’ Club – American Science Succumbs to Winner’s Curse

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  May 9th at 11:15 AM  | 

There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false.…Moreover, for many current scientific fields, claimed research findings may often be simply accurate measures of the prevailing bias. -Ioannidis JPA (2005) Why Most Published Research Findings Are False. PLoS Med 2(8): e124. (HT: Public Library of Science) Modern American Science may no longer be reliable or believable. There have and always will be | Read More »

Stephen Hawking and the New Western Dark Age

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  September 13th at 01:23 PM  | 

“If aliens ever visit us,” Hawking warned, “I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans.” (HT: Taki’s magazine) Stephen Hawking, who now officially believes far more fervently in ET than YHWH, seems to be engaged in making sure his above quote is a self-fulfilling prophesy. He has joined | Read More »

Harrison Bergeron; Meet Berkley, CA

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  January 4th at 11:25 AM  | 

Often the most cutting and effective satire against the iniquity of progressive ideology comes from intelligent leftists who can no longer bear the stupidity they personally champion. George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984 are classic examples. Kurt Vonnegut, a darling of the intellectual left for works such as Slapstick and Slaughterhouse Nine, also had his moment of cognitive dissonance. His short story Harrison Bergeron pillories | Read More »

HARRY_READ_ME.txt

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  December 1st at 03:52 PM  | 

East Anglia University used to proudly host the Climate Research Unit. Now, perhaps, they wish that the well-heeled yet skeptical alumni didn’t know that this particular academic institution existed on their campus. EAU-CRU claimed to have the most comprehensive and well-ordered archive of climate data in the world. According to Lorrie Goldstein of the Toronto Sun, they have an archive that holds a certain volume | Read More »