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3 weeks ago | 
dailysceptic.org | Noah Carl
In a recent tweet extolling his supposed success in tackling illegal migration, Sir Keir Starmer wrote, “You have every right to be angry about small boat crossings. I’m angry too. We are ramping up our efforts to smash the people smuggling gangs at source.” Unsurprisingly, this incredibly insincere and misleading statement was bombarded with negative comments.
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3 weeks ago | 
thecritic.co.uk | Noah Carl
Conservatives should sympathise with the right of Palestinians to a homeland When it comes to the long-standing conflict between Israel and Palestine, most people on the right are either more sympathetic to the Israelis or proudly indifferent to the plight of foreigners in general. There are, of course, understandable reasons why right-wingers back Israel: the country is seen not merely as a Western ally, but as a plucky outpost of Western civilisation.
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1 month ago | 
dailysceptic.org | Noah Carl
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is now the second world leader that Trump has openly admonished in a White House press briefing (Volodymyr Zelensky being the first). Trump was asked by a journalist, “What will it take for you to be convinced that there’s no white genocide in South Africa?” And in response, he played a pre-planned video showing supposed evidence for the genocide, which Ramaphosa, like a schoolboy in detention, was made to sit and watch.
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1 month ago | 
thenewconservative.co.uk | Noah Carl
What effects does immigration have on society? Some are obvious and can be seen with the naked eye. Immigrants may look different. They may dress differently and have different habits.
Other effects are less obvious and must be studied using social science. Do immigrants commit more or less crime than natives? Do they pay more in taxes than they take in public services? Do they shift the culture one way or the other? These questions are not straightforward to answer.
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1 month ago | 
dailysceptic.org | Noah Carl
What effects does immigration have on society? Some are obvious and can be seen with the naked eye. Immigrants may look different. They may dress differently and have different habits. Other effects are less obvious and must be studied using social science. Do immigrants commit more or less crime than natives? Do they pay more in taxes than they take in public services? Do they shift the culture one way or the other? These questions are not straightforward to answer.
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1 month ago | 
dailysceptic.org | Noah Carl
In 2003, a study titled ‘Monkeys reject unequal pay’ was published in the leading journal Nature. The authors, Sarah Brosnan and Frans de Waal, reported evidence that capuchin monkeys exhibit ‘inequity aversion’. They conducted an experiment where pairs of monkeys exchanged tokens for rewards with a human. In one condition, both monkeys received cucumber (an inferior reward). In the other, one of the two monkeys received grapes (a superior reward).
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1 month ago | 
razibkhan.com | Razib Khan |Noah Carl |Bo Winegard
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -14:55Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib talks to Bo Winegard and Noah Carl, the editors behind the online publication Aporia Magazine, founded in 2022. Winegard and Carl are both former academics. Winegard has a social psychology Ph.D. from Florida State University, and was an assistant professor at Marietta College. He was an editor at Quillettebefore moving to Aporia.
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1 month ago | 
dailysceptic.org | Noah Carl
When elites try to impose feminism on ordinary people, do they become more or less receptive to it? In a 2022 paper, Brian Wheaton of UCLA found that they become much less receptive. He studied “Equal Rights Amendments”—changes to US state constitutions that explicitly mandate gender equality. Comparing changes in gender attitudes in states that did and didn’t pass such amendments, he found that Americans became less supportive of gender equality when such amendments were passed.
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1 month ago | 
dailysceptic.org | Noah Carl
In his famous work On Bullshit, the philosopher Henry Frankfurt defined bullshit as speech intended to persuade or manipulate someone without regard for truth. He distinguished it from lying, which refers to speech intended to persuade someone of a falsehood. So while the liar attempts to steer his interlocuter away from truth, the bullshitter is largely unconcerned with truth—seeking instead to impress or bamboozle his interlocuter.
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2 months ago | 
dailysceptic.org | Noah Carl
It was reported this week that “for the first time” Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, has ordered officials to publish an official “migrant crime league table”. Her decision is being heralded as a big win for opponents of mass immigration. Robert Jenrick, the former Tory leadership candidate, was quoted as saying that “following over a year of pressure from campaigners, including my own attempt to change the law”, there has been a “breakthrough”. However, this seems like an overstatement.
