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What A Winter
January 20, 2026
FDA Goes Bayes: It Should Have Gone Probability
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Class 76: That’s Not Noise. That’s Signal!
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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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Beneficent Government To Ban Another Thing (Trans Fats)

Studies show the government cares about you more than you care about you, that the government loves you more than your fractured ability to love it back, that this most…
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Students Eschewing Humanities In Favor Of Science

The Times is reporting that students are high-tailing it away from the humanities, scurrying into "STEM" departments. STEM is the educational buzzword of the day---theorists in education surf from fad…
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The Boston Globe’s Failed Assassination Of Willie Soon

Christopher Rowland, the Washington Bureau Chief for the Boston Globe, is not a child molester. The Boston Globe has covered child molestation stories, suspiciously at times when Rowland was with…
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What Happens When Research Yields Unpopular Findings

After learning the gabbling Stephan Lewandowsky was able to complain in the Associate for Psychological Science's Observer magazine that some loon called him a self-contradictory bad name, I became curious…
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Women With Large Posteriors Live Longer? Or Is Medical Reporting Nonsense?

When reader Bruce Foutch sent me the article "Ghanaian women with big buttocks will live longer---Research", I first thought, "Here's a story a Bayesian can really sink his teeth into"…
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The Supraterranean War On Sanity: Scientists Versus Civilians

Cast your mind back to 1980. Nobody, not a soul, knew that gaspers, coffin nails, and cancer sticks were bad for you.1 Tobacco companies used an advanced form of mind…
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Snot-nosed Brown University Brats Throw Temper Tantrum

When is the last time you saw a bratty kid throw a temper tantrum? If you were a professor at an American university, probably right after midterms. But if you…
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Robert Heinlein And The Distinction Between Scientist vs Academician

Christos Argyropoulos ‏(@ChristosArgyrop) asked me to comment on his post of the same title at the blog Statistical Reflections of a Medical Doctor. Heinlein: One can judge from experiment, or…
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