I have long argued, and commenters on this blog have long been disputed, that science died shortly after World War II, replaced by official state religion wearing lab coats as priestly robes, and using test tubes as aspersoria for holy water. The age of science began with the Restoration and the Royal Society. The Royal Society’s motto was “Take no one’s word for it”.  Feynman, in his address “What is …
Category: science
The cervix and rape
tl;dr: Legalize rape. Ban fornication. Old Testament got it right. It is often said, and it is largely true, that women cannot get pregnant by rape. Of course they can get pregnant as a result of someone having sex with them while holding a knife to their throat while they scream and weep and struggle and protest, but unlikely to get pregnant unless they rather enjoyed the knife and the …
And how many fingers is O’Brien holding up, Gcochran9
The blog “West Hunter”, which investigates our ancestry, sometimes gets close to the edge of permitted thought. But will not slip over the edge. The globe is warming catastrophically, gay “families” are just are … just like normal families and are definitely not harems of sex slaves, and so on and so forth. And, while it industriously investigates the origin of races, there are, nonetheless, no such thing as races. …
Why human hypergamy is dysgenic
Normally hypergamy is eugenic. That is what it is for, that is its telos, that is almost the definition of hypergamy. Yet it is very noticeable that a successful natural is frequently poor, perhaps usually poor, and often rather stupid. A loser, except he is a big winner with girls. Consider the peacock. Glorious tails are so big and heavy that they are bad for the species, bad for the …
The point of the dark enlightenment is to understand the world, not to change it.
Theory is understanding and understanding is theory. Seeing the world as a collection of bare unexplained facts is effectively the same as seeing the world as filled with magic. To suppose that somehow price controls on wages or medical treatment do not behave like price controls generally is in effect to believe in magic. Without theory the world is a collection of magical events, something that defies understanding. Experiments can …
Power laws in polygyny
When we read that only one man in three reproduced, we tend to imagine two thirds of the men in an underclass detached from society, enslaved, killed, or driven out, and one third of the men forming society, with three wives each. Or you could have two thirds killed in war and the survivors get the booty. And similarly, if only one man in seventeen … But obviously it is …
High reproductive variance among males
The sociobiology leading to the conclusion that women are ill suited to be part of the larger society, and should be subordinated to husbands and fathers, rests in large part on high reproductive variance among males in the ancestral environment, the environment of evolutionary adaption. Now it obviously seems likely that reproductive variance among males was extreme – just look! And pretty much everyone in the manosphere agrees that it …
Heroic entrepeneurship after the Restoration
According to the Whig/Marxist version of history, the roots of the Industrial revolution were in the Glorious Revolution, which represented the rights of man and the rising political power of businessmen. There are several problems with this story. One is that the rise of China decisively proves that the rights of corporations matter a whole lot more for economic development than the rights of man, and if you are looking …
tasmanian aboriginal skull
At least that is what the article says, though maybe they photographed a Neanderthal skull in error. On the other hand, Erectus walks among us gives an example of an almost equally primitive looking aboriginal skull, and suggests that our most recent common ancestor with the Australian aboriginals is not very recent. The difference seems to be at least as great, as the difference between a human skull and a …
Race and species
One of the many politically incorrect aspects of Darwinism is that races are the origin of species. There is no objective way of distinguishing a large race difference from a small species difference, any more than one can distinguish a large hill from a small mountain. To say that two closely related kinds are two races of the same species, or two distinct species is a fact about scientific terminology, …