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Probability & Statistics Cannot Prove Cause

Correlation I was at the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness conference in Ontario (LA) California and gave my paper The Crisis Of Evidence: Why Probability And Statistics Cannot Discover Cause, which…

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Lawrence Krauss Wants All Scientists To Be Militant Atheists

Krauss's biggest mistake in the first part of his "All Scientists Should Be Militant Atheists" article is to assume the (secular) government gets to decide right and wrong. Krauss is…

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Latest Threat To Global Warming? In Vitro Fertilization

Stop me if you're heard this one before. An academic, educated well beyond her capabilities, having a lot of free time on her hands, and frightened past the point of…

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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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Another Academic Calls For Shorter People To Battle Global Warming

Academic philosopher S Matthew Liao (NYU) and pals are coming to get you. They want to monkey with your genes, kill your unwanted, inject growth-stunting hormones into your womb, poison…

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Do You Believe In Global Warming Because Of The Seriousness Of The Charges?

An activist tells you, "Based on my theory of rampant, out-of-control global warming, otters, driven mad by the heat, will take to the streets and destroy mankind, just like apes…

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The Gaia Hypothesis Is Either Trivial And Useless Or False And Ridiculous

Hans Schellnhuber is an adviser to the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences. In the peer-reviewed Nature paper "Climbing the co-evolution ladder" (431, 913 (21 October 2004)) he and two co-authors…

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Pascal’s Pensées, A Tour: II

Since our walk through Summa Contra Gentiles is going so well, why not let's do the same with Pascal's sketchbook on what we can now call Thinking Thursdays. We'll use…

Rudolph Harrier on In Which Feynman Makes A Mistake: Negative Probabilities (Used In AI, QM, Finance)December 10, 2024
Heresolong: I would look at it this way. There are many things that can be done in mathematics which initially…
JDaniel on In Which Feynman Makes A Mistake: Negative Probabilities (Used In AI, QM, Finance)December 10, 2024
Herosolong echoes my immediate thoughts about negative probability. We tend to assume certain things to be mathematically impossible, because they…
Heresolong on In Which Feynman Makes A Mistake: Negative Probabilities (Used In AI, QM, Finance)December 10, 2024
My degree is aerospace engineering and my trade is High School level math teaching. Probability makes my eyes glaze. I…
Intellectual Honesty and the End of Benepapism – Roma Locuta Est on Munus, Ministerium & Pope Emeritus Benedict — Guest Post by Fr John RickertDecember 9, 2024
[…] [3] Fr. John Rickert, FSSP, Ph.D., “Munus, Ministerium & Pope Emeritus Benedict — Guest Post by Fr John Rickert”.…
Paul Murphy on Class 31: How Views Diverge With New EvidenceDecember 9, 2024
The example is unfortunate because it moves the reader's view of what you're on about from math to behavior -…