Thanks to AS! I don’t have your email, so I hope you see this. The epidemiologist fallacy occurs when a scientist announces, directly or implicitly, that X Causes Y, but where X […]
They always tell stories of the quiet unproductive or dissolute wasteful sorry debauched lives many of the heirs of the wealthy and powerful lead. The lack of ambition or corruption is not […]
One of our main themes is Uncertainty. In short, there is not enough of it, especially in Science. Which is to say, there is a surfeit of certainty. We drown in false […]
This post is, as they say, in the weeds. But it’s necessary for those who want to know how The Science is produced. I saw a tweet, the veracity of which I […]
The media has been reporting that 37% “of warm-season heat-related deaths can be attributed to anthropogenic climate change”. They gleaned this from the peer-reviewed paper, “The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to […]
3.5 weeks in to Alberta’s mask mandate, cases just keep right on rising, proving once again that if you keep trying something that’s already failed everywhere, unsurprisingly it will continue to fail […]
ET Jaynes in his must-have Probability Theory: The Logic of Science said, “It appears to be a quite general principle that, whenever there is a randomized way of doing something, then there […]
We met our favorite headline the other day: Climate Change Destroys World, Pregnant People Hardest Hit. A version of that headline rolls off the science press about weekly, now. They are all, […]
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