Substack vs. Magazines: growth
Substack is doing well. They have successfully avoided being woke censors so far, even avoided COVID censorship while everybody else was toeing the party line. Back in January, they published…
“public policy never necessarily follows from scientific findings”, yes and no
I am currently reading Bryan Caplan's new book collection of old blogposts in book format. One of them was pretty interesting: Behaviorial Geneticists versus Policy Implications from 2009. He quotes…
Will the real Emil please stand up?
Since is there yet another character and cancellation attempt on me, I thought it might be useful to write a post about my actual politics, which could then stand in…
So Le Pen didn’t wen
Back in April, I posted the results of my predictive model about Marine Le Pen's winning chances. The model produced a much higher chance of victory than most other people…
Big Tech censors the Buffalo shooter’s manifesto
Once again, Big Tech are censoring a manifesto written by a terrorist, in this case, the Buffalo shooter Payton Gendron. It used to be on Google Drive, but was deleted.…
More waves in longitudinal studies do not help against initial sampling error
Suppose you ran 20 studies. By coincidence, one of them attains p < .05 and, by good fortune, it's in the right direction too. The other studies get thoroughly examined…
The indoctrination effect of universities: overstated
Dictionaries define indoctrination as: the act of indoctrinating, or teaching or inculcating a doctrine, principle, or ideology, especially one with a specific point of view (dictionary.com) the process of repeating…
IQ nationalism
Borderless Welfare State: The Consequences of Immigration on Public Finances Sometimes white nationalists describe me as a proponent of 'IQ nationalism', they don't mean it well. It's somewhat of a…
Book review: Why Trust Science? (Naomi Oreskes)
So why trust science? I would say I am a proud supporter of scientism, crude versions aside. Naomi Oreskes is a prominent science historian who mostly writes history books attacking…
Tech solution to tech totalitarianism
This has been suggested many times, but if you don't want to read the 4000 words version that Moldbug has, here's a 255 words TL;DR. What you want is a…