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Benoît B. Mandelbrot: A Maverick Who Broke the Consensus

The Mandelbrot set reminds me of the Fibonacci series that, in a similar way, gives rise to aesthetically pleasing patterns in a wide variety of natural phenomena. Read More ›
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Mimetic Behavior in the Scientific Community

Sometimes the suppression comes from the government. The restriction on doctors' freedom to use promising treatments during the pandemic was unprecedented. Read More ›
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Listen: Ignaz Semmelweis Against the “Experts”

It’s just one of many historical instances of experts clinging to an old paradigm in the face of contrary scientific evidence they don’t like. Read More ›
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Merry Christmas! #8 Story of 2020: Upstairs into the Plague

Epidemiology, to which Darwinism is a “narrative gloss,” is an old and vigorous science. Read More ›
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Upstairs into the Plague

Every stock boy or housekeeper or nurse is doing more to fight this pandemic than all the politicians and talking-head science grifters and tenure-track professors. Read More ›

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