Many off this week, out on their last grand chance to cling to summer. As is proper. So you might have missed a few juicy coroandoom items. Incidentally, we’ll tackle “excess deaths” […]
Coronadoom Update: Why Are Masks & Models Believed?
How Models Are Being Used & Abused In Science
I was interviewed by the Manipulation Check channel on YouTube the other day on, more or less, the philosophy of models. And how models are being used and abused these days. Here’s […]
Canada’s Science Coronadoom Model Discovers Canada’s Science Saved 800 Thousand Lives
Repeat after me: all models only say what they are told to say. Here it is, right from the hole of Theresa Tam (you recall it was that Canadian official’s bright idea […]
Was Fisher Wrong? Whether Or Not Statistical Models Are Needed
The answer is yes. Or, if you prefer, no. It depends. Here’s a long query about the subject from friend-of-the-blog Kevin Gray. Over the years many have disagreed about many things with […]
New Scientific AI Computer Model Shows Experts Should Be Launched Into Space
Two exciting new models have been released. One says the vaccinated should fear the unvaccinated. The second, a new scientific Artificial Intelligence computer mathematical model, has concluded Experts should be launched into […]
Global Warming To Create Cold Which Will Cause Mass Extinctions: Experts’ Model
Reporter Leslie Stahl once had herself filmed walking by a power plant’s smokestack. She said, “There could be anything coming out of there.” Unless “we” acted. She asked her ardent followers to […]
If All Models Only Say What They’re Told To Say, Can We Learn From Them? Mask Model Example
From reader Goncalo Dias comes this excellent question: I have just sat through your seminar on (super-)models. [LINK] I have a quick question: if you assume some fluid mechanical properties and some […]
Models Only Say What They’re Told to Say — The Paper!
The paper (more like a glorified note, really) “Models Only Say What They’re Told to Say” (by me) will appear in the Springer book Prediction and Causality in Econometrics and Related Topics […]
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