Lars P. Syll

Förnuft och frihet — samhällsbyggets hörnstenar Sommar i P1 är en ärevördig tradition i svensk radio. Redan som barn brukade yours truly tillbringa långa sommardagar med att ligga på Ribban i Malmö eller vid Luhrsjön i Hästveda och lyssna med medhavd transistorradio. Tyvärr har programmet med åren genomgått samma utveckling som public service i stort — bra har blivit dåligt, dåligt har blivit sämre, och sämre har blivit ren skit. Visst glimmar det till...

The invasion of Ukraine is political suicide for Putin .[embedded content]

Sahra Wagenknecht — Sherlock Holmes of the year .[embedded content] The accuracy of the predictions that self-proclaimed ‘experts’ make certainly seem to have an inverse relationship to their self-confidence. Being cocky and wrong is a lethal combination. “Russland, das ist ja relativ deutlich, hat faktisch kein Interesse, in die Ukraine einzumarschieren. Natürlich nicht.” Someone’s brain is obviously on vaccation here …

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For many people, deductive reasoning is the mark of science: induction – in which the argument is derived from the subject matter – is the characteristic method of history or literary criticism. But this is an artificial, exaggerated distinction. Scientific progress … is frequently the result of observation that something does work, which runs far ahead of any understanding of why it works. Not within the economics profession. There, deductive reasoning based on logical...

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A freedom fighter’s speech to European Parliament .[embedded content]

Use of covariates in RCTs (wonkish) .[embedded content]

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