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Lancet Editor: Half Of Science Is Wrong. An Underestimate?

Half of science may be wrong? That may be an underestimate. But at least Richard Horton, the editor in chief of The Lancet, is in the right ballpark. Ballpark? That…

Philosophy Statistics

Randomness And The “Null” Hypothesis

Last week of teaching! Randomness is not a cause. Neither is chance. It is always a mistake to say things like "explainable by chance", "random change", "the differences are random",…

Culture Philosophy

The Consensus Fallacy

Here is the word-for-word opening in the Vox "explanatory journalism" tidbit "John Oliver shows how to debate climate deniers": That climate change is occurring, and that humans are the primary…

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Why Progressives Believe Global Warming

Everybody believes propositions based on arguments of some kind. All progressives (so far as I know) believe in global-warming-of-doom, defined as if-we-don't-do-something-the-world-boils. What argument are they using? Probably more than…

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Probability’s Empirical Bias

Bit of logic (a favorite example) from our teacher Lewis Carroll: given "All cats understand French and that some chickens are cats", what can we say about the proposition "Some…

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Space’s 10 Mistakes People Make When Arguing Science

Reader Ken pointed us to Space.com's click-me-click-me! article "The 10 Mistakes People Make When Arguing Science". Since everybody loves numbered lists, I'll duplicate their efforts here, using their mistakes. Isn't…

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The Somebody-Might-Get-Hurt! Fallacy

Word is our beneficent government, which loves us and would not see us fall into harm, is working on a design for a system of chains to anchor both citizens…

Fun

Coming Clean On My Global Warming Funding

Since the "Why models run hot" flap started a witch hunt in Congress, I thought I'd give the complete story of my funding for any work of any kind done…

Tired Citizen on Do Our Rulers Really Believe What They Say They Believe & What To Do About ItMay 13, 2024
Leftists lose their minds instantly when presented with empirical data on a subject. For example, the idea that white police…
James Bowery on Do Our Rulers Really Believe What They Say They Believe & What To Do About ItMay 12, 2024
How ironic that my most recent edit to Hume's Guillotine (@github) was to add The Devil's Dictionary definition of "cynic"…
Jim Whyte on Homeopathic PostMay 11, 2024
Not working. You should double the dose...
John Pate on Are Caps on Atmospheric Emissions of Human Activities Equal to Traffic Rules? — Guest Post by Jaap HanekampMay 11, 2024
Control of food supply is control of populations. That's what makes it different from harmonizing traffic regulations which are at…
john on Homeopathic PostMay 10, 2024
"Nothingness is not nothing. It is the same with emptiness. Emptiness is not nothing. It is the ground of everything."