The first part of this article also appears at the Broken Science Initiative. Go there to read it, too, and many other good ones by other authors. We already saw a study […]
Signal + Noise vs. Signal: Don’t Make This Classic Mistake
Day three of classical posts on global warming, now “climate change”. Your author has many bona fides and much experience in this field: see this. Announcement. I am on vacation this week […]
Over-Certainty Is One Of The Main Causes Of Bad Science: Brain Volume & IQ Example
Announcement Next week I am on vacation as I prepare for the Cultural Event of the year. There will be no new posts: there may be classic reposts. Don’t miss JH’s and […]
Experts: Stop Us Before We Let AI Become Aware & Kill Us All!
To reify, v: consider an abstract concept to be real. Now the Scientist was more cunning than any Expert in the field which the Dean had made. And he said to the […]
How To Discover Any Trend You Want In Climate Time Series
Day five 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 […]
Science Is Self-Perpetuating, Not Self-Correcting: Sea Ice Case Study
Headline from 2014: “Expert predicts ice-free Arctic by 2020 as UN releases climate report“. Here from NASA is a picture by year of the estimated minimum sea-ice extent, which occurs around September […]
The Statistics Of Stopping Power
It is a slow week, and a week of Thanks, so let’s spend our time with some fun things. Like a fascinating study by Greg Ellifritz on “An Alternate Look at Handgun […]
How Do Scientists & Soothsayers Know When They’re Right? Report on Fourth Broken Science Initiative Event
We had the fourth Broken Science Initiative event this past Saturday at the Castro Ranch in Aromas, California. Which is apparently where CrossFit got its start. Standing room only. Terrific crowd. Good […]
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