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Class 65: A Last Plea Never To Use Or Trust Statistical Evidence Like This
September 18, 2025
Lacent’s Vaccination Model Says What Its Told To Say
September 17, 2025
Chinese Scientists Pull Off Hilarious “Climate Change” Troll?
September 16, 2025
On The Myths Of Scientism
September 15, 2025
Use The Tools The Left Created Against Them
September 11, 2025
The Various Solutions To Black Crime Analyzed
September 10, 2025
The False Expectation Of Permanence
September 9, 2025
Astonishing Climate Change Predictions!
September 8, 2025
Class 64: No Confidence (Interval) In Parameters
September 4, 2025
What Are The Chances 6 AfD Candidates Die Before An Election?
September 3, 2025
Funniest Thing To Happen In Science In Years
September 2, 2025
Pray For The Downfall, Ruin, Confusion & Conversion Of The Doctors & Experts Causing Transanity
September 1, 2025
Class 63: My Correlation Is Causation Because My P Is Wee
August 28, 2025
The Right & Wrong Way To Do (Electromagnetic) Science: Interview With Hans G. Schantz
August 27, 2025
World Ends In 25 years! Towns Become Slaughterhouses! Peter Thiel Disguises Self As Sheep!
August 26, 2025
Deniers Refusing To Die From Climate Change Heat Waves
August 25, 2025
Class 62: Die P-value, Die! Die! Die!
August 21, 2025
Research: Solar Activity Causes High Blood Pressure
August 20, 2025
The Key Role Of Probability & Chance In Science
August 19, 2025
On The Cult Of The Victim & Why We Must Reject It
August 18, 2025
Class 61: Does This Guy Have ESP? II
August 14, 2025
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Class 65: A Last Plea Never To Use Or Trust Statistical Evidence Like This

Posted by By Briggs September 18, 2025
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Lacent’s Vaccination Model Says What Its Told To Say

Posted by By Briggs September 17, 2025
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What Is A “Climate Change Skeptic”? Assist With Definition

As requested by Richard Drake and J Ferguson, who began a conversation on a similar topic last week, this new post asks what is the best "opinion poll-ready definition of…
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New York’s Induced Terminations Of Pregnancy

New York City's Health Department (motto: It's for your own good!) released its annual birth and death statistics, and the internet is aflutter, particularly over the numbers on abortion. "Raw"…
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Internet Porn Reduces Rape?

I want to be charitable. I really do. But as I reviewed the paper "Pornography, Rape, and the Internet" by Clemson professor Todd Kendall (author of "Celebrity Misbehavior in the…
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Ivy League Climate Skeptics

I received this email from Rob Fishman at the Huffington Post. My answer follows. I'm the social media editor here at HuffPost (and a Cornell alum). I came across your…
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Ecoheroes For the Climate Join Global Warming Superheroes!

Remember Global Warming Superheroes? A site where I---cough, cough---made villain of the day? While glancing through my logs, I was led to Timberati: Reasonably green thoughts. The folks there were…
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Predictions For 2011: Submit Yours Today!

  Since everybody remembers what Yogi Berra said about this hoary subject, we can skip it. Still, we can't help but wonder with Calvin, where are all the rocket ships…
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Nanodots, Kindles, And The Future Of E-Books

US News and World Report reprinted a press release from the National Science Foundation which announced that, "Nanodots Breakthrough May Lead to 'A Library on One Chip'." A researcher at…
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Posted inFun Statistics

Scientists Too Sure Of Themselves: Except, Of Course, Climatologists And Neuroscientists

Since most of us are ill inclined to labor until Monday next, I don't want to post anything of momentous importance until then---accepting, as we must, that all that appears…
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  1. Ed on Class 65: A Last Plea Never To Use Or Trust Statistical Evidence Like ThisSeptember 18, 2025

    As a teacher who's seen, in the eyes of many a student (pun intended), the inglorious mist of complete misunderstanding,…

  2. Uncle Mike on Class 65: A Last Plea Never To Use Or Trust Statistical Evidence Like ThisSeptember 18, 2025

    I disagree with your hypothesis that "my career has largely been a failure". You shouldn't expect the world to immediately…

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    Modern scientific statistics is nothing more than a roleplaying game based on a 20 sided die. The game master (study…

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    Sorry, the same printer's devils who occasionally sabotage Dr. Brigg's publications must have attacked my previous post; Should read; "ouroboros".…

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    I just thunk up a term to describe this scientiststic strain of thought (hmm, is that one pun or two?);…

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