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Against Numerology: Some Basic Calculations
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Irrational Rationalists: Effective Altruists & The Planet of the Ants
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Class 95: Answering P-Value Good Uses Challenges
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Whoring For Climate Change
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Class 94: Quantifying The Unquantifiable
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PFAS and Preservatives: Entrenching Chemophobia through Everyday Stuff — Guest Post by Jaap Hanekamp
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The MRS Degree — Guest Post by Johnathan Edwards
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Politicians Demand “Right” To Be Protected Against AI
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Class 93: P-values Challenge! List The “Good Uses” of P-value
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Is the West Dying Out? The Demographic Crisis Explained: Jon Harris Podcast
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Lindsay Clancy Strangled Her Kids Because Of “Climate Change”
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Do Dogs Poop In Alignment With The Earth’s Magnetic Field?
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Lewontin’s Other Fallacy: Race & Intelligence
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Against Numerology: Some Basic Calculations

Posted by By Briggs October 19, 2026
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Class 97: The Goal Of Models

Posted by By Briggs October 15, 2026
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Class 58: Hypothesis Testing Is All Wrong
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Class 58: Hypothesis Testing Is All Wrong

We want Pr(Hypothesis true|Evidence) but get Pr(Data we didn't see | Hypothesis false). This makes no sense, but I promise that is what is done. My friends, it gets real…
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Vegetarians Crave Power And Success More Than Meat Eaters Do, Study Finds
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Vegetarians Crave Power And Success More Than Meat Eaters Do, Study Finds

I stole that title, ripped it right off, word-for-word, from the Study Finds website, a source rich in The Science exaggerations. I pulled off this heist because I can't think…
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Jung’s Synchronicity & Coincidence
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Jung’s Synchronicity & Coincidence

A coincidence, or co-incidents, as we have discussed, is the joining together of two or more events that stick in your mind and call out for a causal connection. Here…
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Reader Opinion Requested: What Science Do You Find Sketchy, Exaggerated Or Wrong?
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Reader Opinion Requested: What Science Do You Find Sketchy, Exaggerated Or Wrong?

Am I wrong that we grow weary hearing about error-laden "climate change" science? I know I am, and have been. But what about you? When Trump won the first time…
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Class 57: The Second Best Model
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Class 57: The Second Best Model

We want Pr(Y|X) where Y is a question about the world and X all/everything/in toto of what we assume is probative. That's not what we get usually. But we should!…
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Don’t Lose Sleep Over Research On “Climate Change” & Sleep Apnea
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Don’t Lose Sleep Over Research On “Climate Change” & Sleep Apnea

Here's the propaganda headline: "Climate change is making it harder for us to sleep: Study". Which cannot be believed. Yet if they would have said "Climate change research making it…
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What’s Wrong With The Golf Course Parkinson’s Study
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What’s Wrong With The Golf Course Parkinson’s Study

I searched as diligently as I could, which of course means there might be somebody who could search better, but I found no evidence professional golfers develop Parkinson's Diseases (PD)…
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The Unseen Bias In All Science
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The Unseen Bias In All Science

I picked a lousy (slow, pre-Fourth) day to post a criticism of "IQ" last week, and badly titled it "Test Your IQ With These Puzzles! (Not So Easy!)". Something like…
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    The mathematician Richard Guy wrote a paper "The strong law of small numbers", where he said, facetiously, but also serirously:…

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    I'm looking forward to the book; warts and all the first was enlightening and fun to read.

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    I'm a big fan of LaTeX. I wrote a class package that made it into one or more of the…

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    i have your first edition which I read, pencil in hand foor the typos. Loved it anyway! Will be buying…

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    Hello again, friend Briggs How colloquial is your French? Please allow me to be te first to wish you; Merde!

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