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Broken Science Initiative Event — 18 February, Phoenix

By Briggs on February 3, 2023 • ( 6 Comments )

What Can You Replace P-Values & Hypothesis Testing With, Especially When Computing Sample Sizes?

By Briggs on February 2, 2023 • ( 9 Comments )

It Was Always Clear Masks Don’t Work In Stopping Respiratory Viruses

By Briggs on February 1, 2023 • ( 38 Comments )

Coronadoom Misinformation Model Says What It Was Told To Say

By Briggs on January 31, 2023 • ( 13 Comments )

How To Gamble If You Must

By Briggs on January 30, 2023 • ( 6 Comments )

Pfizer’s Gain-Of-Lethality Research Sting: Clown-World Contagion Comedy

By Briggs on January 27, 2023 • ( 24 Comments )

First documented casualty of anthropogenic global warming

By Briggs on January 14, 2008 • ( 1 Comment )

It may finally be time to start worrying. The horrible effects of global warming look to have begun It is estimated that at the Battle of the Somme in World War I, […]

Climatologists are nice people

By Briggs on January 12, 2008 • ( 6 Comments )

Most warm weekends, you can find me in Central Park by the Tavern on the Green playing the beautiful game of petanque. This is the French version of bocci, only unlike the […]

Reality overtakes satire once more: a legal joke goes by the board

By Briggs on January 11, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

You’ve heard the joke about the boy on trial for killing his parents using the argument that the judge should be lenient because he was, after all, an orphan? Well, that’s another […]

The Lancet’s poorly choosen statistics

By Briggs on January 11, 2008 • ( 2 Comments )

The Wall Street Journal opinion page has an article about a “study” appearing in the prestigious journal Lancet that purports to estimate the number of deaths in the Iraqi war. It turns […]

Greenpeace is shocked–shocked–to discover lobbying going on

By Briggs on January 11, 2008 • ( 7 Comments )

There is a belief among certain paranormal researchers—these are the guys who study mind reading, clairvoyance, etc.—that is used to explain why psychic experiments haven’t seen positive results. It is called the […]

Congress Probes Celebrity Drug Ad Endorsements

By Briggs on January 10, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

The sub-headline over at ABCNews.com is “Lawmakers Concerned That ‘Dr.’ Jarvik Lipitor Ads May Be Misleading Viewers.” A kindly “doctor,” Robert Jarvik, inventor of the artificial heart, tells viewers about the benefits […]

U.S. Senate Report: Over 400 Skeptical Climate Scientists

By Briggs on January 10, 2008 • ( 16 Comments )

The U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works has released an addendum to its list of 400-plus scientists who express some level of skepticism about man-made global warming. I highlight this […]

Hurricane paper featured on AIR-Worldwide

By Briggs on January 10, 2008 • ( 3 Comments )

Roger Pielke, Jr., who’s at the University of Colorado Center for Science Technology Policy Research, has written a year-end summary of the 2007 hurricane season. The summary appears in two places: AIR-Worldwide, […]

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