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The Great Global Warming Blunder by Roy W. Spencer

The Great Global Warming Blunder: How Mother Nature Fooled the World's Top Climate Scientists by Roy W. Spencer This book was given to me for review by the publisher. Clouds…

Culture Philosophy

Martin Gardner, Philosophical Scrivener, RIP

All regular readers will surely know Martin Gardner, writer, philosopher, mathematician, magician, exposer of flim flam. He died Saturday night; according to long-time friend and magician James Randi, peacefully. For…

Philosophy Statistics

Lesson Two Again and Again: Logic is Not Opinion

Everybody: thanks for the emails. I do see them. I'll be answering all on the weekend. Would it surprise you to learn that to graduate with a degree in statistics---BS,…

Fun

Global Warming Political Enemies List

I wrote what follows for an editor who, lucky fellow that he is, has moved on to better things. So, in order not to waste these precious pearls (and to…

Philosophy Statistics

Postmodernism and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science

Since I am, by nature, a compassionate individual, I had been thinking of how we might Sokal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). It is for their…

Philosophy

Spot The Logical Fallacy!

It's time to play everybody's favorite game: Spot The Logical Fallacy! Each week (or whenever we get round to it), we pull quotations from news reports from around the world…

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Spot The Logical Fallacy!

See the first installment of our favorite game. As is frequent in the evolution of games shows, the set of rules has been simplified. Itâ€™s time to play everybodyâ€™s favorite…

Statistics

AMO+PDO = Temperature Variation: One Graph Does Not Says It All

Introduction Anthony Watts over at Watts Up With That?---incidentally, a blog title infinitely superior to "William M. Briggs, Statistician"---asked me to comment on Joe D'Aleo and Don Easterbrook's new paper,…

A Failure of Imagination | ? Frame on The New Based RightMay 20, 2024
[…] * Based / debased is one such word that has risen in prominence that I cannot claim. Credit for…
Nate on Casual FridaysMay 19, 2024
Enjoy your summer, Matt. Touch some grass, do some fishing.
Johnno on Casual FridaysMay 19, 2024
Is the latest edition of Brigg's Book of Everything released yet? I want only the best most up to date…
Michael Dowd on The Election Fix Is In, But Not How You Think — Guest Post by Ianto WattMay 19, 2024
C-Marie: Yes. Give mercy, get mercy. At least from God.
C-Marie on The Election Fix Is In, But Not How You Think — Guest Post by Ianto WattMay 19, 2024
Perhaps God does have a sense of humour regarding His mercy as we would see it. Here is a possible…