Scientists chase after fads as much, and maybe even more, than anybody else. We have seen this numberless times, “climate change” and covid being the two most prominent examples. Every scientist, it […]
Register Your Predictions For 2024!
My Dear Friends and Despised Enemies, Happy New Year. As has been our tradition these many years, it’s time to register our predictions for the coming year. We looked at how well […]
Claiming To Be Able To Blame Weather Events On Global Warming
This is not a big story, but it’s worth highlighting because of the pernicious effects of science journalism, which suffers from the same faults as political journalism. Emphasis on extremes, cheerleading, opinion […]
Climate Change & Gun Violence Research — A Mini-Play In One Act
SCENE: A PRESTIGIOUS UNIVERSITY DRAMATIS PERSONAE: TWO AGING PRESTIGIOUS ACADEMICS “Hey, dude, we’re, like scientists. Maybe we should, like, do some research.” “Yeah, man. Do research.” “Do research. We definitely need to […]
How Smoothing Time Series Generates Massive Over-Certainty
Day four of the week of classical posts on global warming, now “climate change”, a subject which I had hoped had faded into obscurity, but, alas, has not. Your author has many […]
The Claim 37% Of Heat Deaths Are Caused By Global Warming Is Absurd
The media has been reporting that 37% “of warm-season heat-related deaths can be attributed to anthropogenic climate change”. They gleaned this from the peer-reviewed paper, “The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to […]
Propaganda Masquerading As Climate Science
If you are ignorant in a field, such as I am in ancient Peruvian pottery, you must look to purported authorities to settle disputes that might arise or for guidance in making […]
This Is A Stick Up
Before I begin, let me ask Biden voters: how you guys doing today? It’s that happy joyous anticipated glorious time of year where I squeeze readers to fund my extravagant life as […]
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