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Your tone seems pretty strong. Have you ever heard of Anwar al-Alwaki? Do you ever read the New York Times? http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/19/us/nation-challenged-ameri... "Imam An…

No one can enlighten anyone; you have to enlighten yourself. Where did you get this picture of the pre-1968 world? For instance, your picture of classical Europe as "hardcore unres…

Your "ideas" are abstractions. These abstractions are new (they are a product of 19th and 20th-century ideology). The realities behind them (charity, social mobility) are anything …

This is why it's a great idea to try these cases on Hacker News. (I'm only half kidding.) Always and everywhere, if you sit on a jury and listen only to the prosecutor or defense a…

The Ryen account is a little far down that page. Since we heard one story in anatomical detail, how about another? "The first time I met Kevin Cooper I was 8 years old and he slit …

There's one fact that is never mentioned in this story. Methane is lighter than air (about 0.7th the density of air). The methane leak is above Porter Ranch (about 1200 feet, a fac…

Whenever I see smart geeks talking about tons of CO2, I always wonder what percentage of them know whether the Arrhenius effect (temperature forcing as a function of CO2 concentrat…

Not entirely welcomed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Dennis#Sedition_trial

I recommend Malcolm Muggeridge's autobiography for a compelling look at the circle of Western journalists in Moscow in the '20s and '30s, of which Muggeridge was a part. Scott Alex…

Ah, but that was 1946. The (American) party line had changed -- most American liberals were anti-Stalinist in 1946. A quick google search turns up this from 1943: http://trove.nla.…

Thompson, like many (if not most) American journalists of her time, was a Stalin apologist in the Duranty circle: http://spartacus-educational.com/USAthompsonD.htm I'm not sure any…

Be careful in selecting your "other side" -- the examples you use to define it may have been brought by "your side." I can't speak for the other two, but I'm guessing you're not th…

I think a very small amount of stylometric analysis would cast a lot of doubt on this theory. Satoshi's grammar is always perfect. His sentences are tight. He's clear and to the po…

TLDR: the researchers you admire are part of a school that disagrees with Dr. Hsu's school. Or at least, sort of disagree. It's not that they have any results showing a method for …

This has to be the nicest, most reasonable-sounding ad hominem argument I've ever seen. But it's still an ad hominem argument. Is there any way you actually disagree with the post?…

Your evidence (of the absence of sexual dimorphism in the human brain) is that rats with identical genes can be trained in different directions? (Your second link is behind a paywa…

No, I'm asking you to produce evidence for a hypothesis you seem to believe. I don't have any hypothesis of my own. If you tell me that the Sears Tower and the Empire State Buildin…

I'd love it if articles like this came with links to scientific evidence that XX-chromosome humans have the same distribution of interests and aptitudes as XY-chromosome humans. Al…

Let me change one word in your response: > Students don't need "protection" from free speech, nor does anyone need to be rescued from the "mockery" and "humiliation" of an accusati…