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  • Bumblebrain’s Bungles – 14mar21

    George Rebane Here’s an exercise in critical thinking that’s been circling the backwaters of my brainbone.  Most of the nation has debated Biden’s mental capacity and come down on this side or that.  And during this time a lot of new evidence keeps coming in on the policies he’s intitiated and how he’s handling his…

  • Updating Beliefs, Knowledge, and Facts

    George Rebane I’m working on a piece that describes in a more formal and specific sense how people can have their own opinions AND facts, given that they all formulate or update them from the same body of newly arrived evidence.  How can that be?  The answer to that question also goes a long way…

  • Protein Folding – Solved!

    George Rebane Rejoice!  We have all lived to see the practical solution to one of the most complex and important processes that defines and determines how all critters live and die.  It’s called protein folding, and it describes how a very long string of bio-molecules called amino acids first hook up with each other, and…

  • Looking for Uncounted Votes (updated 20nov20)

    George Rebane Daily we hear of another discovered tranche of uncounted votes.  And these announcements are followed by a chorus of leftwingers (Democrats and their talking heads) pooh-poohing the latest discovery because it isn’t enough to swing the majority.  These come with admonitions that such efforts should cease because they ‘prove’ that there are not…

  • The Flaws and Fate of Public Opinion Polling

    George Rebane We must always remember that, more often than not, the public mind is fickle, frenzied, and foolish. There was no sign of the ‘Blue Wave’ predicted by the pollsters and ballyhooed by the lamestream.  This is the second (third?) national election in a row about which the polls have been drastically off the…

  • A Purposely Politicized “Pseudo-pandemic”

    ‘A nation ignorant and free, that never was and never shall be.’  Thomas Jefferson George Rebane Today reporting on the corona or Covid-19 virus (C19) resembles a chaotic cacophony.  I wanted to pull together some salient factors that help me sort things out in this blizzard of mostly junk journalism, agenda driven by election year…

  • Unreasonable Partisan Fears

    “We have nothing to fear but those who live in fear.” – BH, RR reader and contributor George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 13 October 2020.] Our Left has been telling Republicans for years that Democrats are the party of intellectuals and the highly educated.  Republicans are…

  • ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ (updated 11oct20)

    “Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”, Richard Feynman George Rebane Almost everything you’ve heard about Covid-19 (here also C19) from politicians, the media, and publicized scientists and clinicians is wrong.  Here at RR, early on I started looking at the pandemic with a gimlet eye.  I did this as a science professional…

  • Growth v Tax Rate v Revenues (Addended)

    The more you tax something, the less of it you get. – Fundamental tenet of economics rejected by the Left. George Rebane To the above we can add another truth rejected by all leftwingers – ‘Tax rates don’t impact economic behavior’.  Understanding how the Democrats ignore these fundamental aspects of economics, goes a long way…

  • The Reliability Roulette of Testing (updated)

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 21 July 2020.] It’s again time to bring up testing for the Covid-19 virus.  Let me start by saying that testing has shown no value in formulating reasonable pandemic response policies by public officials.  It has become an election year political…

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