This post was supposed to be titled, “Conference Report: Day 1,” because I intended to give a blow-by-blow of the American Meteorological Society meeting which started yesterday here in New Orleans. But […]
Prominent philosopher commits global warming fallacy
National Post says statisticians needed too
Canada’s National Post, in a piece from a little more than a year ago, made a call for more statisticians to be involved in climate change research, much as the American Meteorological […]
Great graph of religious majority of each county
Graph is here.
Statisticians global warming plea: don’t forget about us!
Who doesn’t love to read about statistics and statisticians? That’s a rhetorical question, my friends, so don’t bother answering. But I will allude to an answer, by telling you that I begin […]
Ralph Peters gets his stats right: the New York Times purposely misleads
I’m a veteran and haven’t killed anybody in years. But if you read the New York Times you’d be right to worry that I might. The Sunday, 13 January 2008, edition of […]
This is what happens when you allow actors to speak without a script
From the video where Mr Cruise identifies scientologists:? “You can see the look in their eyes, you know the ones who are doing it. And you know the spectators, the ones who […]
What can we learn about global warming from poor reporting?
From today’s Syndney Morning Herald comes the headline: “Global warming to impact health“. First, by impact the reporter almost certainly means influence, a more accurate, but far less energetic and “actionable”, word. […]
A video worth watching
Take three-quarters of a hour and watch the following video interview with Anthony Daniels, a.k.a. Theodore Dalrymple. Daniels is one of our most thoughtful, intelligent, and compassionate writers on culture. A quick […]
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