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We Have -12 Months To SAVE THE PLANET
There is a typo in the title. Not the negative. That's supposed to be there. We really do have negative time to save the planet. The typo, or rather inaccuracy,…
Posted inPhilosophy Statistics
Subjective Probability Is Objective
Because certain forms of Bayesian probability, particularly so-called subjective probability, are being taken up in quantum mechanics, it's well to understand just what subjective probability is, if it's anything, and…
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The Pozzing Of Medicine Continues, Lancet Editor Edition
Listen to this first; it's only a minute. https://twitter.com/DoctorsXr/status/1187377667928141824 My transcription: My name is Richard Horton and I'm editor of The Lancet. The climate emergency that we're facing today, being…
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Brain Scientist Thinks Their Brains Are Out To Kill Them And Get Away With It
The peer-reviewed paper by Messrs Dor-Ziderman, Lutz, and Goldstein is in NeuroImage (the journal went with the hip no space) "Prediction-based neural mechanisms for shielding the self from existential threat".…
Posted inCulture Statistics
The Fading Of Christianity In Numbers. Embracing The Dying Of The Light?
An interesting statistic, the source of which I do not know and therefore cannot verify, shows that those who claim they are "not religious" is increasing in North Africa. Libya…
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Epidemiologist Fallacy Strikes Again: Miscarriages And Air Pollution Edition
I love air pollution. Smells like progress. Good for you. Nothing healthier. Except smoking. There, now that that's out of the way, let's get to the paper "Air pollution-induced missed…
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Realist Catholic Climate Declaration Is Live
Access it directly at this link. Or read it here! The Declaration The Magisterium of the Catholic Church makes no mention of earth's optimal climate, or the best rate of…
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Two New Papers: Atmospheric Ammonia Modeling
Both of these are in review at "peer review" journals, because as we all know, peer review guarantees truth. Lot of people use what's known as the Ryden & McNeil…