Category Archives: Politics and sociology

Tall tales in science

Posted on 06/01/2020 by Jon Garvey

I found this short, but useful “entry level” video on the replication crisis in science on YouTube.

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Alternative feminism

Posted on 04/01/2020 by Jon Garvey

Thaddeus Russell is an interesting guy, an historian more or less evicted from the academic establishment for contradicting the prevailing progressive agenda. He’s started an alternative “university,” which is interesting in itself as a similar project has been mooted by the English philosopher Roger Scruton, who was also sidelined by an ideologically strait-jacketed academia.

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Is wokeness a running-through-treacle dream?

Posted on 28/12/2019 by Jon Garvey

A vegan Green explained to me over Christmas why eating eggs is bad. The problem, it seems, is that poultry bred for egg-laying is sexed at a day old, and the males, being non-productive, are mostly culled for animal feeding or fertilizer. This denies them the right to a meaningful life, which cannot be justified on animal welfare terms. Ergo eating eggs is immoral.

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The dangers of making assumptions about data

Posted on 17/12/2019 by Jon Garvey

I commend to you this YouTube presentation by Frank Lansner, from October, which explains and updates his 2018 paper, which is unfortunately behind a paywall:

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I learn how to manipulate the masses (in 1963)

Posted on 10/12/2019 by Jon Garvey

I recently recalled the time, in primary school, when I was able to control the behaviour of my entire school.

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Murdering opinions

Posted on 02/12/2019 by Jon Garvey

Between school and university, I spent several months as a lowly scientific assistant in a government Pest Control Laboratory.

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“Alexa, what is the real cost of your switching on my lights?”

Posted on 25/11/2019 by Jon Garvey

Here’s a link to a stunning diagram, and the must-read accompanying long article, called “The Anatomy of an AI system.” I understand it’s won some kind of award for a design as iconic as, perhaps, the London Underground map of Harry Beck; or perhaps closer still, those diagrams of the cell’s biochemical processes that so impressed me with God’s wisdom during my medical training.

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Press credibility

Posted on 21/11/2019 by Jon Garvey

I don’t think I’ve mentioned that I recently rediscovered a book I’d forgotten I’d read back in 2009, Flat Earth News, by Nick Davies. It’s very relevant to my current interest in the propaganda-world in which we now seem to live, and move, and have our being.

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On Phillip Johnson

Posted on 15/11/2019 by Jon Garvey

The recent death of the founder of the Intelligent Design Movement (and seriously accomplished legal scholar), Phillip Johnson, put me in mind of the fact that I once met him, but had never read his work.

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Religion ghosts in refrigerated truck

Posted on 09/11/2019 by Jon Garvey

I’m not sure how internationally this news was reported, but last month’s “illegal immigration tragedy” in Britain was the discovery of 39 bodies in a refrigerated truck recently arrived in Essex from Zeebrugge. It quickly emerged that, apart from the scale of the incident, it was unusual in that the victims, first identified as coming from China, were all actually from Vietnam.

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