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What A Winter
January 20, 2026
FDA Goes Bayes: It Should Have Gone Probability
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What A Winter

Posted by By Briggs January 20, 2026
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FDA Goes Bayes: It Should Have Gone Probability

Posted by By Briggs January 19, 2026
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Eating Chocolate Increases Chance Of Nobel Prize, P< 0.05

Yesterday, those noble Nobel fellows, the same committee that honored President Obama---what was it? six, seven days after he assumed office?---, gave this year's Peace Prize to the European Union.…
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Realism vs. Anti-Realism II: The realist challenge — Guest Post by G. Rodrigues

The one who will not work fits what is written about the virgins of Israel: he gives birth to wind -- but the one who will work gives birth to…
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The Year Of Faith: What Strange Things People Believe

What better way to start the Year of Faith than with this headline: Experts: Global warming means more Antarctic ice This was atop an article penned Seth Borenstein, who noticed…
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The Future of Scientific Publications: Abandon Journals?

It took three years--or was it four?---for a paper I submitted to the august journal Annals of Statistics to wend its way through peer review. When it came back to…
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Realism vs. Anti-Realism I: Introduction — Guest Post by G. Rodrigues

The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve. We should…
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Caring Is Killing Us: What’s Wrong With Benevolence by David Stove

This review ran last August, but because of pressures of work and the relevance this important book has to our upcoming elections, it's time for another look. Regular posts resume…
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Debate Thread: “Where Was This Romney Before?” Always There

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Scientists: GOP Women More Feminine Than Dems

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  1. shawn marshall on What A WinterJanuary 20, 2026

    c'mon global warming!

  2. Chad W Jessup on What A WinterJanuary 20, 2026

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

  3. Brian (bulaoren) on What A WinterJanuary 20, 2026

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

  4. Lucy Tucker on What A WinterJanuary 20, 2026

    Yikes, Sarge, hang in there!

  5. Rich on FDA Goes Bayes: It Should Have Gone ProbabilityJanuary 20, 2026

    "this, this and this" should probably be links...

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