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This Week In Doom: Bad Science Edition

3 out of 4 scientists agree The bagatelle about how more than half of published research is wrong---a fact well known to regular readers---is garnering comment hither and yon. Joanne…
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Posted inCulture Statistics

The New Pew Religion Survey Isn’t What You Think (Probably)

Lot of chatter over the new Pew survey of religiosity, "Christians Decline Sharply as Share of Population; Unaffiliated and Other Faiths Continue to Grow". Main result: Christianity down, "nones" up.…
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The Pontifical Academy’s Sustainablity Conference Podcast

CLICK HERE TO GET TO THE PODCAST Arrgh. I'm trying out a new podcasting plugin. It puts the podcasts into something-which-isn't-a-post and which is impossible to find. So here is…
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Posted inCulture Philosophy Statistics

What Does “Sustainability” Really Mean?

I had originally titled today's article as "The Theology of Sustainability", which has a certain ring to it. But I admit the title chosen by the Crisis editors probably results…
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Bad Science Of The Year Nominee: Global Warming To Cause Bad Music

Strike the title. It's probably wrong. But, if so, it was an understandable mistake. After all, it was based on the news article "Music: Will climate change give us the…
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Global Warming Hypocrisy: Or, Science Is Politics

Lefties take money, too In an interview with far-left New York Times, activist and part-time scientist Michael Oppenheimer says "nothing follows" from his taking moola from the EDF (Environmental Defense…
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Science Officially Runs Out Of Things To Study

The headline in the peer-reviewed Physiology & Behavior paper by Soojin Park and Weon-Sun Shin says it all: "Differences in eating behaviors and masticatory performances by gender and obesity status".…
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Bad Arguments Against The Death Penalty: Update

Big news is that both lefty and righty Catholic news sources banded together last week to issue an editorial "Capital Punishment Must End". The subject is enormous; there is no…
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    hey doc Steven Hayward's substack post on "Pope Bob" https://stevehayward.substack.com/p/pope-bob includes an image and summary of a book on "evaluative…

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    Probability is defined on a sigma field. But what exactly is a sigma field? In simpler terms, it represents the…

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    Always thought-provoking, William. The comments section’s a bit hostile today. To really grasp what Matt is driving at, you have…

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    JH, My IQ is simplicity itself to estimate. I have no IQ. Pick up any stats books and look under…

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