Clearing Up Some Conceptual Confusions About Conspiracy Theory Theorising

A reply to Gérald Bronner, Véronique Campion-Vincent, Sylvain Delouvée, Sebastian Dieguez, Nicolas Gauvrit, Anthony Lantian, and Pascal Wagner-Egger's piece, '“They” Respond: Comments on Basham et al.’s “Social Science’s Conspiracy-Theory Panic: Now They Want to Cure Everyone”

On the correlation of shear band formation and texture evolution in α\alpha-brass during accumulative roll bonding

We studied the microstructural evolution of the low stacking fault energy $\alpha$-brass alloy CuZn15 during accumulative roll bonding (ARB). Most notably, the typical brass-type texture was clearly observed after four ARB passes (approx. 93.8 % total thickness reduction), before significant shear localization set in. This observation contradicts the widely accepted idea that shear band formation is a necessary prerequisite for the development of the brass type texture, indicating that the two phenomena, shear banding and development of the brass texture, are only correlated in ARB, and that their order of appearance can be switched depending on experimental parameters.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure

Stationary processes whose filtrations are standard

We study the standard property of the natural filtration associated to a 0--1 valued stationary process. In our main result we show that if the process has summable memory decay, then the associated filtration is standard. We prove it by coupling techniques. For a process whose associated filtration is standard, we construct a product type filtration extending it, based upon the usual couplings and the Vershik's criterion for standardness.Comment: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009117906000000151 in the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org

Nature humaine et Révolution française. Du Siècle des Lumières au Code Napoléon

Présentation de l\u27éditeur : "Quelle conception de l\u27homme les révolutionnaires avaient-ils à l\u27esprit lorsqu\u27ils légiféraient pour sa félicité ? Cette interrogation, qui pourrait être primordiale aux yeux de qui se fait devoir de méditer sur leurs « droits de l\u27homme », est curieusement très peu soulevée. Elle ouvre pourtant, à travers les Lumières et la Révolution, une large voie, qui met au jour un paysage insoupçonné : pour l\u27essentiel, une conception très réductrice et toute passive de l\u27être humain, objet prédestiné de manipulation, de « régénération », de bonheur imposé. C\u27est l\u27objet de ce livre !"