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Reader Opinion Requested: What Science Do You Find Sketchy, Exaggerated Or Wrong?
July 14, 2025
Class 57: The Second Best Model
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Don’t Lose Sleep Over Research On “Climate Change” & Sleep Apnea
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What’s Wrong With The Golf Course Parkinson’s Study
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The Unseen Bias In All Science
July 7, 2025
The Sad End Of Radio
July 3, 2025
Let’s Play A Game Of Let’s Suppose!
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Test Your IQ With These Puzzles! (Not So Easy!)
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How Can You Tell If You Have ESP?
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Class 56: The Best Model!
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Sabine Hossenfelder’s Free Will Folly & The Deadly Sin Of Reification
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England’s Mandatory Suicide & Women
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On The Probability Of God
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Class 55: Models Vs Reality
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AI & Chess Both Produce Pre-Coded Output
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The Hubris Of Experts: NIH Edition
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The Mathematics Of Conspiracy Theories. Part 1: Black Eye Club Example
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Class 54: Exchangeability & Parameters
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Over-Certainty Of Polygenic Scores
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AI & The Dilemma Of Technology
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What Are The Chances Thomas Jefferson & John Adams Died On The Fourth of July, 1826?
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Reader Opinion Requested: What Science Do You Find Sketchy, Exaggerated Or Wrong?

Posted by By Briggs July 14, 2025
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Posted inStatistics

Class 57: The Second Best Model

Posted by By Briggs July 10, 2025
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Coin Flip Video Restored!
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Coin Flip Video Restored!

What a clusterfarg. Here is the video, in all it's glory. Link. https://youtu.be/8XX0iRAN--8 Sorry for the duplicate email/post.
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Curse Of The Enlightenment: All Of Its Axioms Are False, Yet We Believe Them All
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Curse Of The Enlightenment: All Of Its Axioms Are False, Yet We Believe Them All

Why are things so bad? And why will they continue to grow worse? The Enlightenment. Also known---or, rather, as it should be known---as The Great Corruption. Things are bad because…
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The Probability Of A Head In A Coin Flip Is 1, Not 1/2
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The Probability Of A Head In A Coin Flip Is 1, Not 1/2

My dad and I built a coin flipping machine. Then made this video (you might have to click the link): LINK FIXED. Link, because the embedding is not working. https://youtu.be/8XX0iRAN--8…
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Experts want to take uteruses out of women and put them into men
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Experts want to take uteruses out of women and put them into men

To read today's article, it is helpful to recall that in the context of biology and medicine the prefix trans can always be translated by not a or just not.…
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Apple Threatens World Destruction! “It is our aim to permanently remove carbon from the atmosphere”
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Apple Threatens World Destruction! “It is our aim to permanently remove carbon from the atmosphere”

I was asked to look at this video promoted by the slob---no, really: he's a slob; not that it's his worst sin---who runs Apple. Unfortunately, some of you will have…
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Truths Labeled Medical Misinformation, Falsities Called Official Truths
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Truths Labeled Medical Misinformation, Falsities Called Official Truths

Gruesome Gavin Newsom signed a bill in 2022 that allowed him to snatch the medical license from any doctor that disagreed with his Official Truths of coronadoom. I say "his"…
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Modern The Science & The Unpersoning Of Evidence
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Modern The Science & The Unpersoning Of Evidence

There is no typo in the title. We are discussing The Science, and not science. Science-sans-article is chugging along, doing okay there, and poorly there, the whole decaying for all…
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The Great Grand Bluff Of Science
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The Great Grand Bluff Of Science

Everybody knows the story of the turtles. The earth is held up by four large elephants, some say, which stand on the shell of an enormous turtle. When asked what…
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  1. Scott Locklin on Reader Opinion Requested: What Science Do You Find Sketchy, Exaggerated Or Wrong?July 14, 2025

    Well I could mention nutrition and exercise science. Also drug discovery. I'm not sure statins actually help anybody, but I…

  2. Sigmund Fraud on Reader Opinion Requested: What Science Do You Find Sketchy, Exaggerated Or Wrong?July 14, 2025

    Psychology followed closely by Sociology. They are pretty neck and neck for the top sketchy positions.

  3. hudbwu on Reader Opinion Requested: What Science Do You Find Sketchy, Exaggerated Or Wrong?July 14, 2025

    Recently, I was interested in religious observance in Europe, both west and east. It's surprisingly difficult to find good numbers…

  4. Dan Kurt on Reader Opinion Requested: What Science Do You Find Sketchy, Exaggerated Or Wrong?July 14, 2025

    Astronomy/Astro-Physics: * Red Shift as a distance analogue * Black Holes * Gravity Waves * Gravity controlling the structure of…

  5. Phil R on Reader Opinion Requested: What Science Do You Find Sketchy, Exaggerated Or Wrong?July 14, 2025

    I'm neither a mathematician or a statistician, although I have a degree in science (geology) and regularly work with numbers…

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