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The decline of the scientific method: How Ideological Capture of Our Scientific Institutions Kills Innovation. Releated: The climate is in great shape If Dsciencew wan't been corrupted the CAGW narrative woudn't exist

Children of Men is looking more and more prpheticL The Global Fertility Collapse related, Car Seats as Contraception. Makese sense as a contributory factor.

Not unexpected: U.S. defeats China in simulated war over Taiwan, but costs are high, says new study on risks

Hollywood's New Rules

Jerry Pournelle's Iron law of bureaucracy in action: More Employees Than Students at Stanford

Space: Last year marked the end of an era in spaceflight—here’s what we’re watching next

Declining standards: Kiwi shoe polish and civilization

Yes: Why the West should go nuclear

The Post-Human Economy Need to try out thid chatGPT at some point

Ideed, with depohrapghc shifts they won't be back in power ever again: Tories Should be Dreading Defeat

Ed West on Paul Johnson: ‘The worst of all despotisms is the heartless tyranny of ideas’

Video of the week: tthe Drinker continues his series explaining why modern movies suck:


The modern left does like sticism at all, partly a reaction agains the old 'stiff upper lip' British mentality and prefers to espress fellings.

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