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Applied epistemic rationality:
Using the techniques of rationality and the language of Bayesian probability theory to help ourselves and each other sort out truth from falsehood in the world out there.
I.e., more stuff like this. (I've done mine, and am eager to participate in someone else's!)
Let me mention that Nate Silver at 538 did something quite similar to your Knox post, just today:
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/15/a-bayesian-take-on-julian-assange/
By the way, I downvoted the parent. It is nothing personal, but debates like those induced by the Knox post are not what I'd like to see more of here.