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Stream: Vatican Environmental Conference: A Marriage of Bad Governors and Bad Science

Today's post is at the Stream: Vatican Environmental Conference: A Marriage of Bad Governors and Bad Science. The excerpt here keeps my caveman joke which was lost somewhere downstream. Jerry…

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Bread From Something Or Nothing? Or, What’s A Miracle?

We interrupt our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles for this brief message. You've heard of the miracle of loaves and fishes? What's a miracle? How do miracles happen? Read these…

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More Reasons Not To Use The Precautionary Principle: Update

All probability is conditional and we are always interested in some proposition, call it X. We want to know "the probability of X". Well, there is none: not ever. There…

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Stream: Attack Of The Black Swans From Outer Space!

Today's post is at The Stream: "Attack Of The Black Swans From Outer Space: Nassim Nicholas Taleb and his co-authors fail to show their precautionary principle provides any guidance in…

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Climate Change Alarmists Appear Immunized Against Reality at The Federalist

Today's post is at The Federalist: "Climate Change Alarmists Appear Immunized Against Reality". So Ars Technica sent a young man who bills himself as an "educator" and hydrologist to the…

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Idols With Wee P Values. Statistics As Ritual

Or, rather, wee p-values are idolized. And it isn't just me saying so. Reader Dan Hughes points us to Gerd Gigerenzer and Julian Marewski's peer-reviewed paper "Surrogate Science: The Idol…

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Cheating With Polls Down Under. Guest Post by Stephen Dawson

Today's post is from our friend Stephen Dawson, who writes at hifi-writer.com. I scheduled this in advance, knowing I'd be suffering jet lag. Professor Will Steffen from the Australian National…

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The Need To Believe In “The Solution” To Global Warming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgM1yhwj1mg Travel day, plus I wanted to have this on its own anyway. Speech given at the Tenth International Conference on Climate Change, June 12, 2015 in Washington, DC. The…

Uncle Mike on Academics Say It’s Morally Obligatory To Bioengineer Ticks To Stop You Eating MeatAugust 5, 2025
So there is some worth to blood-sucking parasites. Who knew? The only moral thing to do is starve academics. No…
Cary Cotterman on Academics Say It’s Morally Obligatory To Bioengineer Ticks To Stop You Eating MeatAugust 5, 2025
"Promoting tickborne AGS (A) prevents the world from becoming a significantly worse place, (B) doesn’t violate anyone’s rights, and (C)…
Briggs on Academics Say It’s Morally Obligatory To Bioengineer Ticks To Stop You Eating MeatAugust 5, 2025
Kip, I invite you to look the authors up.
Kip Hansen on Academics Say It’s Morally Obligatory To Bioengineer Ticks To Stop You Eating MeatAugust 5, 2025
Briggs ==> Are we sure that this isn't a spoof? Intentionally idiotic? It is "morally obligatory" to make humans sick?
Paul Fischer on Academics Say It’s Morally Obligatory To Bioengineer Ticks To Stop You Eating MeatAugust 5, 2025
The tick lobby must have funded this paper.