#Rigorous

The claim, “Alvin Plantinga is not a philosopher,” is nonsense.1/https://twitter.com/jswillims21/status/1254184663112966146 Plantinga’s major claim to fame was his decisive refutation of J.L. Mackie’s logical argument from evil against theism, but he
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This is a grim read on the latest Gov antibody test from Abingdon Health Ltd.Given the number of test procurement errors & £ millions wasted due to sufficient and rigorous
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I'm grieved when men are held to extrabiblical standards with a tight fist, but women are skipped over as if we're all innocent little does prancing through flower fields. If
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Wrong again–the ON order is for emergencies, and we’re already doing it. But that’s not the point: the @albertaNDP want to take over continuing care, bc they just can’t stand
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Thank you to @ianbirrell for taking the trouble to reply to my thread, disagreeing with the conclusion he drew from DFID's engagement with the Millennium Villages Project in Northern Ghana.
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Good Product Strategy, Bad Product StrategyA thread: Good product strategy clearly identifies target customer segments and non-target segments. Bad product strategy either ignores customer segmentation or attempts to cater to
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From the story:The study “was not a rigorous experiment” and “has not been reviewed by other scientists.”“The difference between [the group that received the drug] and usual care was not
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Dr. @hishamzerriffi is my best friend and he had THIS EXACT CONVERSATION with me about a decade ago (-ish). As you can tell, I not only have my PhD but
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students who protested against racism at Mizzou a few weeks ago are now being blocked from registering for Spring 2021 classes... info below on how to get a temporary hold
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At this point, anyone who votes Trump should lose their citizenship. To vote for someone so opposed to American values and the constitution undermines almost every core American value that
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I’m not a student of mathematics, but I’m sure many major developments in mathematics were accomplished via intuition (as opposed to rigorous deductive reasoning), and intuition almost always implies an
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You'd be mad to trust a vaccine that was not endorsed by health experts based on Trump's word.There is a reason we have a scientific process and multiple trial phases
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As a critic I would welcome a more clear & rigorous defence of IIT. The problem atleast for me isn't the math in IIT. Important are issues around the axioms,
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If you voted for Brexit and shafted your fellow UK citizens but have availed of an EU passport by using my country (Ireland) as a flag of convenience, please do
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Honest question / food for thought:If, in a similar historical pandemic (1957 or 1968) we had initially taken the same lockdown / restricted activity approach, do you think it would
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Yes, I shitpost in my academic papers. Do you? Many of those are already published. Some are forthcoming. Some are accepted but in editing and might go
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