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What A Winter
January 20, 2026
FDA Goes Bayes: It Should Have Gone Probability
January 19, 2026
Class 76: That’s Not Noise. That’s Signal!
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AI: The Earth Is Spinning Faster & Slower (Because “Climate Change”)
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Confirmation Bias In The Minneapolis Shooting
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What A Winter

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FDA Goes Bayes: It Should Have Gone Probability

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Posted inPhilosophy

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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Idols With Wee P Values. Statistics As Ritual

Or, rather, wee p-values are idolized. And it isn't just me saying so. Reader Dan Hughes points us to Gerd Gigerenzer and Julian Marewski's peer-reviewed paper "Surrogate Science: The Idol…
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Posted inCulture

Stream: Pope Francis’s Dr. Strangelove Craves One World Government

Today's post is at The Stream: Pope Francis' Dr. Strangelove Craves One World Government Run by "Experts": Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the scientist behind Laudato Si, is an activist for a…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: God Is Pure Truth

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. Last time…
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If The Constitution Is A Living Document, It Can Die

On this glorious Fourth of July in these once United States, it's well to remember that every living thing dies. And the Constitution, progressives say, is a "living document." Since…
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Laudato Si: “The Curate’s Egg.” The Excellent Parts I. Guest Post by Bob Kurland

Bob Kurland provides us good start to our holiday weekend. (1) He [the Pope] cannot speak as a private theologian but in his official capacity as vicar of Christ and…
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Notes On Our War. Never Give Up! Never Surrender! More Updates

https://twitter.com/mattstat/status/616622719740719104 We're in the midst of a spiritual (call it political if you need to) war, one for which ultimate victory is assured, but one for which it is just…
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Cheating With Polls Down Under. Guest Post by Stephen Dawson

Today's post is from our friend Stephen Dawson, who writes at hifi-writer.com. I scheduled this in advance, knowing I'd be suffering jet lag. Professor Will Steffen from the Australian National…
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    There's always something busting on a house or a car, and mean weather doesn't help. The joy of home and…

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    c'mon global warming!

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    Wish some of that snow would come west, as it looks like La Niña is not helping out here. Repairing…

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    Dr. Briggs I reckon you can be forgiven for today's little screed; That weather sounds pretty nasty. My only experience…

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    Doesn't sound fun, but hang in there. Here in the center of the country, we've had very little snow and…

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