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The trouble with feminism

  • Posted on March 13, 2018April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

In this post, I want to explain why I’m not a feminist and why I think you shouldn’t be either. Of course, I cannot discuss everything I think is wrong with feminism, so I’m just going to focus on what…

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Links – 08/11/2017

  • Posted on August 11, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Robert Kelly argues that North Korea’s nuclear program is almost certainly for deterrence, which I think is clearly right. Jonny Anomaly and Brian Boutwell published a good piece on Quillette where they warn against the danger of ignoring the possibility…

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Links – 07/16/2017

  • Posted on July 16, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

The Atlantic has a good piece on the growth of left-wing websites peddling conspiracy theories since Trump’s election. I have to say that I don’t really think these websites are what is really problematic. Most educated people don’t really take…

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Links – 06/29/2017

  • Posted on June 29, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Sean Trende wrote a very good piece about the lessons we should draw from Ossoff’s failure in Georgia. (As I noted before, Trende is one of the most interesting political commentators in the US. In fact, if you should read…

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Links – 06/11/2017

  • Posted on June 11, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Nicholas Wades of the New York Times discusses research about the Y chromosome which suggests that some of the differences between males and females could originate from the role played by regulative genes on the X and Y chromosomes. The Boston Review…

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Links – 04/05/2017

  • Posted on April 5, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Quanta Magazine explains how a retired German statistician, who used to work in the pharmaceutical industry, discovered a proof of a conjecture that statisticians had been unsuccessfully trying to prove for several decades, but was ignored because he didn’t send it to…

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Links – 03/01/2017

  • Posted on March 1, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Brian Boutwell and J. C. Barnes argue on Quillette that many results in sociology may be confounded by genetics, but we don’t know for sure because social scientists use research designs that don’t account for that possibility. In particular, they mention neighborhood effect, which…

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Links – 02/15/2017

  • Posted on February 15, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

A friend recently created a petition asking the governors of several blue states to “explore the possibility of forming an interstate, single-payer healthcare system for their residents”. I personally don’t think a single-payer healthcare system is a good idea, and I have no idea…

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