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Poor Heat
From our very own Ye Olde Statistician comes the tip, "As Rising Heat Bakes U.S. Cities, The Poor Often Feel It Most", a run-of-the-mill NPR weepie, but with a global…
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The Man In Charge Of The Vatican Says You’re A Fool If You Don’t Believe Athletes Will Run 0.006 Seconds Faster Per Degree Temperature Increase
In my long studied career of insolence and rough defense of Reality, not to mention my general constitutive abrasiveness---I was "born that way"---I have been called every variety of choice…
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Claiming To Be Able To Blame Weather Events On Global Warming
This is not a big story, but it's worth highlighting because of the pernicious effects of science journalism, which suffers from the same faults as political journalism. Emphasis on extremes,…
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The Week In Doom: Follow The Science Edition
The return of the Week in Doom seemed to go well enough last week, so I'll inflict it on you for another installment. Do Not Get Sick Item: "Minority Contracting…
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Academic Heresy Hunters
Did you know, dear reader, that not every person in the world believes in the Everettian (many worlds) multiverse? Shocked, aren't you. Maybe even outraged, our favorite emotion. I know…
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The Mann Act: Banning All Fossil Fuels Immediately To Save The Planet
I don't want us to make too much of the individual behind the brief confession we're about to dissect, because if it wasn't him leading Team Irrationality, it would be…
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People Of No Color Compel The Very Heavens To Obey!
I can understand why people of color feel so bad so often about so many things. They compare themselves to people of no color, and they discover that they come…
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Climate Propaganda Doing A Magnificent Job, Pew Confirms
Remember that New Jersey school system that adds "climate change" propaganda to every class in each year of schooling, kindergarten through twelfth grade? They, and schools like them, are doing…
