I'm reading Taleb's notebook and thinking about parallelism. He talks about Russian statisticians who inject doubt into predictions, trading (which I know not, nor care about) and most importantly, skin in the game. He says beware of the mandarins, the grand ecole, who produce administrators who have no skin in the game; not risk, and … Continue reading Psychiatry and skin in the game.

Now, I firmly believe that one should not resign: I agree with Mike C and Vox that if the press and their SJW minions demand your resignation you should just ignore them. Some years ago one of my more senior colleagues: an epidemiologist with impeccable politeness and precision, who would never harm a fly, was … Continue reading The revolution will be diffuse. And not of the left.

In Otago we have closed our psychiatric hospitals: one is now a cheese factory, and the other a backpackers: the remainder of the buildings are becoming ruins. But we have built more prisons. Some may say this is because the population is greater. But Penrose had a hypothesis prior to deinstutitionalisation, and it may still … Continue reading The Penrose hypothesis in the 21st century: revisiting the asylum

Obama and his generation are now fatally flawed. The Dems are turning to the older: the young have swallowed the sophist kool aid and become social justice warriors. Or lost their blindfolds, and left progressivism, choosing to have a life. When Obama came into the White House, it seemed like the Democrats had turned a … Continue reading The Dems are dying. Good.

There is a true Papist blog I read frequently, and the writer there has given me the courtesy of writing and saying that he hopes I abandon my Calvinist heresy and am received into the Roman Church. He says this with all sincerity, for he sees there is no other church. And I know enough … Continue reading Pray for our Roman friends, for their church is run by the sophists.