Mike Huemer tells truths about progressive myths
American philosopher Mike Huemer published a book a few months ago called Progressive Myths. He was kind enough to send me a review copy. You can return the favor by…
American philosopher Mike Huemer published a book a few months ago called Progressive Myths. He was kind enough to send me a review copy. You can return the favor by…
Western countries are experimenting with solutions to their population aging problem. For instance, one of the countries with the worst age pyramids is Germany: Since the welfare state is effectively…
In my previous post I discussed commonly found normal distribution in humans. In general, these result from many small independent causes in different directions which when averaged result in a…
Granted, it is a bit of a strange name, a power law. Is that a particularly powerful piece of legislation? Not at all. It is a kind of statistical distribution,…
There's a lot of variation across the globe in average height. It looks like this (per OWID): Furthermore, there has been a significant increase in the last century: We also…
There's debate about the decline of sex, or how the young people these days aren't what they used to be. There's plots like this one: I'm pretty sure there is…
Speaking of other science advances we could make right now, human cloning is a good opportunity. Why spend time optimizing embryo selection if we can just take a genome we…
Suppose you are running a company that has a website. You are wondering whether marketing campaign A or B works best. Which one do you go with? Why not both?…
James Lee, authors of many GWAS studies wrote a piece in 2022 entitled Don't even go there saying that NIH is increasingly censorious regarding data access. Since it is short, I…
I think most people are unfamiliar with how the scientific publication and prestige system works. It works like this: Scientists submit papers to journals for publication. This means they start…