We have discussed before (and in detail here) how Fisher, inventor of the wee P of which scientists boast (“Look how small my P is!” shouted the excited scientist), was deeply influenced […]
Why Science Is Broken: Hillsdale Speech Video & Transcript Now Online
Video Here it is: And here is Greg’s talk: Transcript I followed this closely during the speech, but did not adhere to it perfectly. I don’t have a transcript of Greg’s talk. […]
Falsifiability Is Falsifiable
We’ve talked many times before, and at greater length in Uncertanity, about the concept of falsifiability. It has come up again lately. The term shouldn’t be but is equivocal. I mean it […]
Probability & Statistics Cannot Prove Cause
Correlation I was at the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness conference in Ontario (LA) California and gave my paper The Crisis Of Evidence: Why Probability And Statistics Cannot Discover Cause, which we also […]
Why Falsifiability, Though Flawed, Is Alluring: Part I
A theory is said not to be scientific unless it is falsifiable. This is an understandable definition, but as something philosophically useful it fails because most theories scientists hold are not falsifiable. […]
What Should Philosophers Of Statistics Do?
A while back, far longer than it should have been, D.G. Mayo asked me to stop by her place and comment on a couple of posts. But laziness and excessive travel (primarily […]
Logic: Peter Kreeft’s Summa Philosophica Part I
Since we had so much fun pulling apart Ed Feser’s The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism (start here), I thought we’d do the same for Peter Kreeft’s brand new […]
The Science News Statistical Article: Odds Are, It’s Wrong
Many (thank you everybody!) people sent me the “Odds Are, It’s Wrong” article by Tom Siegfried and have asked me to comment. Below are the key points; I will assume that you […]
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