Two academic women are sure the last barrier to the fall of the patriarchy—and installation of the matriarchy?—is prayer. They said so directly in their peer-reviewed paper “The Hidden Cost of Prayer: […]
Evidence for an event cannot be the horrific consequences of that event. Suppose we’re interested in the probability of a Y = “Horrific plague”. Since nothing has a probability, we need first […]
We spoke the other day of the enervating effects of peer review. Today we examine a peer-reviewed paper whose very purpose is to show that peer review exists and is doing its […]
Describing writing isn’t that different from writing about painting. You want to say what the writing or the picture is about, but words fail, the essence is slippery, the description ultimately incomplete. […]
This post first appeared in modified form on 29 Januarty 2014. It also appears (also modified) in Chapter 4 of Everything You Believe Is Wrong. Have you heard of Mesd-su-Re? One of […]
Today, an excerpt of Chapter 5 from Everything You Believe Is Wrong. This is only a brief excerpt from a long chapter which lists a number of voting fallacies and arguments against […]
This is mainly a catch up post for new readers who won’t recall the old days. Listen to the podcast at YouTube, BitChute, or Gab. I’m late on this! STATE OF THE […]
Long-time readers will recall the epidemiologist fallacy is a shotgun marriage of the ecological fallacy and wee p-values. Make that and/or confidence intervals. For confidence intervals are equivalent to p-values in use […]
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