tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30708128.post7769638977631307279..comments2023-12-27T00:49:31.972-08:00Comments on Aether Wave Theory: Clever individuals do not make the group smarterZephirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30708128.post-76873258140770937812013-04-19T13:37:16.388-07:002013-04-19T13:37:16.388-07:00http://www.applet-magic.comhttp://www.applet-magic.comZephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30708128.post-53223702832935207682013-04-19T13:35:19.724-07:002013-04-19T13:35:19.724-07:00http://milesmathis.com http://milesmathis.com Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30708128.post-34087012126845545792013-04-05T15:38:41.552-07:002013-04-05T15:38:41.552-07:00Sidetrack opponents with name calling and ridicule...Sidetrack opponents with name calling and ridicule. This is also known as the primary 'attack the messenger' ploy, though other methods qualify as variants of that approach. Associate opponents with unpopular titles such as 'kooks', 'right-wing', 'liberal', 'left-wing', 'terrorists', 'conspiracy buffs', 'radicals', 'militia', 'racists', 'religious fanatics', 'sexual deviates', and so forth. This makes others shrink from support out of fear of gaining the same label, and you avoid dealing with issues.Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30708128.post-69384301117557317032013-02-18T14:55:48.399-08:002013-02-18T14:55:48.399-08:00It is hard to believe how incredibly stupid he is....It is hard to believe how incredibly stupid he is. Stupid as a stone that the other stones make fun of. So stupid that he has traveled far beyond stupid as we know it and into a new dimension of stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid cubed. Trans-stupid stupid. Stupid collapsed to a singularity where even the stupons have collapsed into stuponium. Stupid so dense that no intelligence can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot summer day on Mercury stupid. He emits more stupid in one minute than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid. It cannot be possible that anything in our universe can really be this stupid. This is a primordial fragment from the original big stupid bang. A pure extract of stupid with absolute stupid purity. Stupid beyond the laws of nature.Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30708128.post-21824813389021975062012-08-06T12:51:35.542-07:002012-08-06T12:51:35.542-07:00Steven Gimbel, the chairman of the philosophy depa...Steven Gimbel, the chairman of the philosophy department at Gettysburg College in his original new book, "Einstein’s Jewish Science: Physics at the Intersection of Politics and Religion," <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/books/review/einsteins-jewish-science-by-steven-gimbel.html" rel="nofollow">considers the possibility</a> that the Nazis were on to something and “maybe relativity <i>is</i> ‘Jewish science’ after all.” There might have been elements of Jewish thinking that gave rise to what is now recognized as one of the deepest insights of all time.Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30708128.post-20906324991363715182012-07-31T04:22:40.424-07:002012-07-31T04:22:40.424-07:00Ashkenazi Jews intelligence theory: genetic sphing...<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews" rel="nofollow">Ashkenazi Jews</a> intelligence theory: genetic sphingolipid metabolism disorders (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay-Sachs" rel="nofollow">Tay-Sachs</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaucher's_disease" rel="nofollow">Gaucher</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niemann%E2%80%93Pick_disease" rel="nofollow">Niemann-Pick</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mucolipidosis_type_IV" rel="nofollow">ML IV</a>) may confer higher intelligence. In the Middle Ages, this population was very restricted in terms of occupations - basically finance and trade. These occupations involved manipulating a lot of numbers and abstract symbols, and it's plausible that higher intelligence might make you better at them... and then more successful bankers/loansharks/whatever were likely to be wealthier and have more surviving children. This created selection for high intelligence in this population, and the result was an increase in the frequency of a few rare alleles that cause higher intelligence in heterozygotes, but devastating diseases in doubly rare homozygotes. The <a href="http://harpending.humanevo.utah.edu/Documents/ashkiq.webpub.pdf" rel="nofollow">proponents point out</a> that Ashkenazi Jews have the highest average IQ of any ethnic group that's been well-tested, 112-115, and they work out that 59% of Ashkenazi Jews should have at least one allele from one of the putatively intelligence-increasing disorders. <a href="http://www.ncas.rutgers.edu/sites/fasn/files/How%20Jews%20Became%20Smart%20(2008).pdf" rel="nofollow">Criticism of every part of that paper</a>. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1180346/" rel="nofollow">A population-genetics analysis</a> showing that genetic drift, rather than selection, is sufficient to explain these alleles (except the coincidence that they target the same pathways). <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_10,000_Year_Explosion" rel="nofollow">A book by the proponents of the hypothesis</a> about this and several other possible examples of very rapid evolution in recent human history, most of them better supported than this one.<br />Editorial: <a href="http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/culture/features/1478/" rel="nofollow">Are Jews Smarter?</a>Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30708128.post-69760648054887232212012-02-27T10:47:06.981-08:002012-02-27T10:47:06.981-08:00Yet astrophysicists in the US have observed such s...Yet astrophysicists in the US have observed such superluminal speeds <a href="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/10/pulars-superluminal-speeds-really-faster-than-speed-of-light.html" rel="nofollow">in space in the form of radio pulses from a pulsar</a>.Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30708128.post-64661707202990430342010-12-01T05:26:48.931-08:002010-12-01T05:26:48.931-08:00Steve Hsu has found a table with the average GRE s...<a href="http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2005/12/physics-still-pulls-them-in.html" rel="nofollow">Steve Hsu</a> has found a <a href="http://www.econphd.net/guide.htm" rel="nofollow">table</a> with the average GRE scores computed for various proffesions.<br /><br />130.0 Physics<br />129.0 Mathematics<br />128.5 Computer Science<br />128.0 Economics<br />127.5 Chemical engineering<br />127.0 Material science<br />126.0 Electrical engineering<br />125.5 Mechanical engineering<br />125.0 Philosophy<br />124.0 Chemistry<br />123.0 Earth sciences<br />122.0 Industrial engineering<br />122.0 Civil engineering<br />121.5 Biology<br />120.1 English/literature<br />120.0 Religion/theology<br />119.8 Political science<br />119.7 History<br />118.0 Art history<br />117.7 Anthropology/archeology<br />116.5 Architecture<br />116.0 Business<br />115.0 Sociology<br />114.0 Psychology<br />114.0 Medicine<br />112.0 Communication<br />109.0 Education<br />106.0 Public administrationZephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30708128.post-26341236170261194822010-10-21T16:44:04.867-07:002010-10-21T16:44:04.867-07:00Scientific realists argue that we have good reason...Scientific realists argue that we have good reasons to believe that our presently successful scientific theories are true or approximately true, where approximate truth means a <br />theory is able to make novel predictions and that the central terms of such theories genuinely refer. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pessimistic_induction" rel="nofollow">pessimistic <br />meta-induction</a> undermines the realist's warrant for his epistemic optimism via historical counterexample. Larry Laudan argues that the history of science is a "graveyard" of <br />once empirically successful theories whose central terms have been found not to refer. For example, 18th century optical aether theory and the humoral theory of medicine were <br />incredibly successful, and yet we no longer believe in the existence of aether, nor would we want to label such theories as having been approximately true. Using meta-induction, <br />Laudan then argues that if past scientific theories which were successful were found to be false, we have no reason to believe the realist's claim that our currently successful <br />theories are approximately true. The pessimistic meta-induction argument was first fully postulated by Laudan in 1981 and survives to this day as one of the strongest arguments <br />against scientific realism.Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30708128.post-63268992704341360522010-10-19T09:32:10.411-07:002010-10-19T09:32:10.411-07:00Definitely agree with just repeating things, which...Definitely agree with just repeating things, which most of people are already expecting to listen unconsciously.Analogue Metershttp://www.analoguemeters.co.uknoreply@blogger.com