‘Rio de Janeiro is a city in South America. It is the capital of Brazil. It exports coffee and sugar. It has a tropical climate’, so wrote the first form Richard in […]
How Zealots Rise To The Top: Global Warming & Transanity Examples
The main reason you can be assured global warming of doom, a.k.a. climate change, is yet another slow-burn moral panic is that scientists in charge of its theory can never, in public, […]
More On How Peer Review Generates And Maintains Consensuses
We spoke the other day of the enervating effects of peer review. Today we examine a peer-reviewed paper whose very purpose is to show that peer review exists and is doing its […]
Somebody Might Get Hurt!
For the closing days of summer, I am posting every chapter of the first edition of Everything You Believe Is Wrong. My enemies ravaged the first edition, inserting typos galore while I […]
Great News! The Climate Is Much Better Than Predicted. Now We Can Calm Down!
I am, and you will be, too, absolutely delighted by a new paper by Roy Spencer: “Global Warming: Observations vs. Climate Models“. This is a paper that will be celebrated with great […]
Elena Kagan’s Blind Love Of The Expertocracy: SCOTUS Slaps The EPA
SCOTUS ruled 6-3 that, in effect, without Congressional authorization, the EPA does not have the power to regulate carbon dioxide. Justice Elena Kagan dissented. Kagan opened her dissent thus (whole opinion; with […]
On The Confirmation Bias Of Experts & Doctors
There is a thing in bad science, and indeed in all life, called confirmation bias. I’ve said many times that all scientists know and believe in the concept, just as all believe […]
Stars In Our Eyes, Rotting Our Minds
For the closing days of summer, I am posting every chapter of the first edition of Everything You Believe Is Wrong. My enemies ravaged the first edition, inserting typos galore while I […]
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