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Class 69: Why Parameters Don’t Exist
October 16, 2025
Putin, Xi Who Must Obeyed, Occult Rituals & Living Forever
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Nobody Believes Anything Based On “No Evidence”
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Good Vs Bad Science (Models) & How You Can Tell The Difference: Think Twice Science
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Class 68: The Philosophy Of Models (Regression): The WRONG Way
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The Lancet’s New Push To Ban Meat
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Class 67: The Philosophy Of Models (Regression): The Right Way
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The Main Barrier To Reproduction Is Ideas
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How You Helped Academics Justify Sex With Children
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Class 66: The Difference Between Uncertainty and Decision
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Autism & Tylenol
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The Charlie Kirk Killing Theories: The (Non)-Mathematics Of Conspiracy Theories 2
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In Which I Shockingly Agree With Sabine That Most Science Is Of Little Or No Value
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Class 65: A Last Plea Never To Use Or Trust Statistical Evidence Like This
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Lacent’s Vaccination Model Says What Its Told To Say
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On The Myths Of Scientism
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Use The Tools The Left Created Against Them
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Class 69: Why Parameters Don’t Exist

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Putin, Xi Who Must Obeyed, Occult Rituals & Living Forever

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Are Moneylines Useful In Predicting NFL Games?

Today's post is over at Edgehogs. I wanted to know how good moneylines were at predicting wins and loses. Since Las Vegas is still in business, it was a good…
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Count Zappula, Horror Host Par Excellence

Gaylord, Michigan, 1979, population 3000. It was 11:30pm, I was 15, in bed watching television with the house dark, parents asleep, a small B&W portable set perched on the blanket,…
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Open Thread: What To Chat About Next?

It is once again Travel Day---or was: I'm writing this in state of advanced jet lag. So, in lieu of thought I've written this little introduction to nothing, hoping you…
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Increasing Replication Of Un-Reproducibility In Science

Best science picture of the year, courtesy of the Wall Street Journal (and thanks to reader Dan Hughes): In just the last decade---ten mere years---the number of "peer-reviewed" journal articles…
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Make Colleges Co-Signers Of Student Loans?

As often has been said, if everybody is a genius, then nobody is. The wisdom in this apothegm is little changed by the modification: if everybody has a certification of…
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Science Explains Belief In God Through Genetics

Let's look at "Life's Extremes: Atheists vs. Believers", a piece on Live Science (the home of unexpurgated university press releases; hat tip to HotAir). The article is itself slight---it begins…
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Geo-engineering The Climate: Durban Global Warming Conference

A group of scientists, funded generously by Big Green, which includes the Environmental Defense Fund, have released a report to coincide with the efforts of the Durban Global Warming Conference,…
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Posted inFun Statistics

Are Experts Better At Predicting Sports Than Ordinary Fans?

Today's post is over at the new and, yes, improved Edgehogs.com. Our launch was a couple of months ago. Since that time we've got a good chunk of games and…
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  1. Francois Stallbom on Putin, Xi Who Must Obeyed, Occult Rituals & Living ForeverOctober 17, 2025

    Hun; spot on!

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  3. John Pate on Putin, Xi Who Must Obeyed, Occult Rituals & Living ForeverOctober 16, 2025

    Now do Adrenochrome.

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    Everything weird they say about China and Russia has been true about the West for decades. Most of the time,…

  5. Eyrie on Putin, Xi Who Must Obeyed, Occult Rituals & Living ForeverOctober 15, 2025

    Old SF novel by Norman Spinrad "Bug Jack Barron". Once castigated in the Brit House of Lords, so worth reading.

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