Our society relies extensively on statistics, which are an averaged measurement of effects over multiple instances. However, there’s a problem with these: they suggest a truth, linguistically, that they do not actually indicate. Those who specialize in statistics tend to be wary of their use except as a statistical assessment; they’re careful to point out [...]
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The biological basis of race
I know, I know… if you want to be one of the popular kids, you insist that everyone is equal, we all want the same things, and we all have inalienable rights and we’re all OK. If you’re a realist, you know that people are different, have different abilities, and some are born bad and [...]
The values of 1968 have triumphed
Forty years ago, in the summer of 1968, leftist radicals fought the police outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The radical Left was a fringe movement in the late 1960s, comprised of politically marginalized and socially outcast racial minorites, feminists, homosexuals, environmentalists, student radicals, leftist intellectuals, counterculturalists and the antiwar movement. Now, forty years [...]
Nationalism: ethnic identity is important
So far, just a trickle of news, but it finally spits out the vital phrase: Support for Norway’s Progress Party rose this month, with one pollster ranking it the country’s biggest political group, as voters backed its anti-immigration stance less than six months before parliamentary elections. “People are losing their jobs, the economy seems to [...]
Ecocide aided by rich-poor political guilt
To stop ecocide, we need to: stop human growth, reduce population, reduce unnecessary use of power — this requires telling Joe Sixpack he can’t have a giant pickup truck, Martha Upperclassuburbanwife that she can’t fly to Rio, and your average dumb liberal cubicle dwelling apartment voter that social welfare programs must cease so we stop [...]
Using DNA, we can tell both your race and your ethnicity
Check out the genetic map of East Asia and the genetic map of Europe. You can see in each of these that the DNA of these populations not only separates them by race, but by ethnicity, including showing clinal overlaps at the geographic edges of these populations. Most people breed with people like them, and [...]
Learning to distrust the Crowd
I was, for years, an enthusiastic advocate of the egalitarian, free-for-all, let’s-level-the-playing field aspect of the Web. More voices! More feedback! More participation! Bring it on! Not anymore. As I’ve mentioned before, I now tend to agree with “West Wing” creator Aaron Sorkin, who said, “Nothing has done more to make us dumber or meaner [...]
Nanophobia
And now comes nanophobia, the fear that tiny components engineered on the nanoscale — that is, 100 nanometers or less — could run amok inside the body. A human hair, for example, is 50,000 to 100,000 nanometers in diameter. A nanoparticle of titanium dioxide in a sunscreen could be as small as 15 nanometers. (One [...]
Obama already running DC like Chicago
[President-elect Barack Obama's chief of staff Rahm ] Emanuel gave the governor’s office a list of “candidates that would be acceptable to President-elect Barack Obama” but no “quid pro quo” or “dealmaking” is suspected. Citing “a source familiar with the investigation,” Fox says that Emanuel had “multiple conversations” with Blagojevich and his chief of staff [...]
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