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Deniers Refusing To Die From Climate Change Heat Waves
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Class 62: Die P-value, Die! Die! Die!
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Deniers Refusing To Die From Climate Change Heat Waves

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Class 62: Die P-value, Die! Die! Die!

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Summary Against Modern Thought: Contingency & Necessity

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. Previous post. The First Way is in the bag. And now…
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All Men Are Mortal: A New, Award Eligible Mini Play

All Men Are Mortal SCENE: A windfarm in Absolute County, a dry patch of land out west. CAST OF CHARACTERS: BRANDON, a speechwriter for Earth Is It! RUSS, Sheriff of…
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The Letter The Lancet Wouldn’t Publish

Here's the title of a big new peer-reviewed paper in The Lancet: Effects of long-term exposure to air pollution on natural-cause mortality: an analysis of 22 European cohorts within the…
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Live From Heartland Climate Conference, Wrap Up

Profound thanks I cannot say enough about the generosity of my benefactor, who not only footed the bill for my trip, but wined and dined and rummed our Secret Society…
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Live From Heartland Climate Conference, Day Two

What happened to Day One? If I find out, you'll be the first to know. Through the extreme generosity of one of us, I'm here in Las Vegas at Heartland's…
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Evolution Under Fixed Constraints; Or, Why Random Changes Don’t Cut It

See if this analogy makes sense. A ramp onto which you loose a ball, which can roll down and fall into one of three slots. The configuration is such that…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Non-existence Of Infinite Causal Chains

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. Previous post. Here's what was proved so far: (1) that some…
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Don’t Go To Confession; Humpty-Dumptying The English Language; More

A Time To Die The play is done! But, as you can see, you cannot see it. This being the 5th of July and a Saturday in what must be…
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  1. Edward on Lying Increases Trust In Science, Says AcademicAugust 24, 2025

    What really concerns me most is the pedantic feeling that “solutions” to problems aren’t what we mean. The way I…

  2. Rudolph Harrier on Class 62: Die P-value, Die! Die! Die!August 23, 2025

    P-values enable a lot of shenanigans, and they are dangerous because most of their "honest" users trust them too much…

  3. John Pate on Class 62: Die P-value, Die! Die! Die!August 22, 2025

    ...and another thing: in Fisher's works first understanding the distribution of what you're measuring in population you are sampling from…

  4. JH on Class 62: Die P-value, Die! Die! Die!August 22, 2025

    Since your definition of p-values is not entirely correct, FYI - understanding p-values and different meanings of p-value

  5. John Pate on Class 62: Die P-value, Die! Die! Die!August 22, 2025

    To be fair to R.A. Fisher he warned people were over-enthusiastic about applying the tools he provided. He wasn't as…

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