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  • Google Is Burying Alternative Health Sites to Protect People from ‘Dangerous’ Medical Advice

    Google Is Burying Alternative Health Sites to Protect People from ‘Dangerous’ Medical Advice0

    In Ray Bradbury’s classic novel Fahrenheit 451, firemen don’t put out fires; they create fires to burn books. The totalitarians claim noble goals for book burning. They want to spare citizens unhappiness caused by having to sort through conflicting theories. Censorship Is Control The real aim of censorship, in Bradbury’s dystopia, is to control the

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  • Google Engineer Fired for Questioning Diversity in Memo—But Four Scientists Say He Was Right

    Google Engineer Fired for Questioning Diversity in Memo—But Four Scientists Say He Was Right0

    Google engineer James Damore had a Jerry Maguire moment. And he ended up exactly like Jerry Maguire.   Damore was fired by Google this week after his 10-page memo, titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” ignited a storm of criticism.   The memo, the text of which can be read here, suggested that biological differences could

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  • Google and the Woke Morality Police Cancel Anti-Porn Apps

    Google and the Woke Morality Police Cancel Anti-Porn Apps1

    In the latest skirmish in the cancel culture wars, Google is booting apps for fighting porn addiction off its app store. In a little-noticed move last month, the internet behemoth removed Covenant Eyes and Accountability2You from the Google Play Store. Google dropped them after journalists from Wired, a technology magazine, alleged that they violated Google’s malware

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  • Google and Apple Are Recognizing the Façade of the Education System

    Google and Apple Are Recognizing the Façade of the Education System0

    I was at a wedding several weeks ago when I ran into a young man I hadn’t seen for a while. Naturally, I asked what he was up to. Was he finished with high school? College? To my surprise, he stated that he was working for Apple as a software developer. “Wow, that’s great!” I

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  • Goofus and Gallant Go Woke

    Goofus and Gallant Go Woke7

    Do you remember Highlights, the ubiquitous children’s magazine that you’d devour at the dentist’s office? If you were lucky, you’d wait for the mailman to deliver a fresh edition to your home at the beginning of every month. It was a treasure. The venerable American publication was established in 1946 by an enterprising married couple

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  • Goodhart’s Law Explains Education Decay

    Goodhart’s Law Explains Education Decay0

    Everywhere in education, you see incentives at work. The incentives, though, are so far removed from the actual goals of education that they produce perverse results. Goodhart’s Law is usually stated, “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” Economics textbooks often use the allegory of a maker of nails,

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