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Class 71: Never Trust ‘Research Shows’ Headlines: We Bring Cause To Data
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Class 71: Never Trust ‘Research Shows’ Headlines: We Bring Cause To Data

All uses of hypothesis testing are fallacies. The results could be true, or likely, but only accidentally. A proof based on the Resurrection and GPA. Bonus Song Anon sent in…
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Diversity Patrol Scanning Citations For Victims
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Diversity Patrol Scanning Citations For Victims

Pity me. I just had a paper rejected because, as one reviewer said, "Although your cure for cancer seems genuine, and would likely help people suffering from that dread disease,…
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Little Nate’s Plan To Save The World
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Little Nate’s Plan To Save The World

Guffaw is not a word met on the street, but is seen in books and other literary matter, and until last week I had never heard anybody say it. I…
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Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education Causes Mass Squealing
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Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education Causes Mass Squealing

Dartmouth President Sian Leah Beilock reacted to the Trump Administration's Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education by saying the university would accept no new grant money, that professors would…
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Stay The Course: Have Some Class

One thing that bothers our guys is microplastics. Tiny bits of plastic, made from manufacturing everything, that make their way through the world, yes, even into our food and water,…
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Last Call For Alcohol-Cancer Papers
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Last Call For Alcohol-Cancer Papers

Time (sigh) for yet another example of the scrofulous, not to say ubiquitous, Epidemiologist Fallacy. This is peer-reviewed-paper generating technique of declaring X CAUSES Y, but where X is never…
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UFO Hits United Flight. All Survive. This Time!
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UFO Hits United Flight. All Survive. This Time!

How do you like my New & Improved title style? Is it click-baity (or is it baitey) enough? I was also thinking of Attack From Space Nearly Downs Aircraft. The…
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Changes Are Coming: Our Return to 1970s
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Changes Are Coming: Our Return to 1970s

The scheduler has been busted, and is not sending emails out on time. I only just now noticed this post. My apologies. Cover your ears, ladies. I'm about to let…
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