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Wishcasting
Around the 4th of July, here in the States, there is a tendency for official weather forecasts to show a probability of precipitation that is lower than it should be.…
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On male pattern baldness and global warming
Global warming doesn't cause baldness in men. At least, I haven't seen anybody claiming this. Yet. No, I'm talking about the little-known theory of intelligence and hair length. For a…
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The limits of acceptable criminal behavior to combat global warming
I want to ask a favor of my regular readers and of those who occasionally come here to seek an alternate view. You can help me spread the word. Yesterday,…
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More evidence that people are more sure than they should be
From Jerry Pournelle (What? You haven't read Lucifer's Hammer yet?) on how just about everybody making bets in the financial markets were wrong. This "everybody" includes very highly educated, extraordinarily…
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Random global warming nuttiness
Many people have been sending me various tidbits about rampant global warming insanity, but it's taking me a long time to get round to posting them. This darn book of…
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Peer Review Not Perfect: Shocking Finding
The way peer review works is broken, according to a new finding by John Ioannidis and colleagues in their article "Why Current Publication Practices May Distort Science". The authors liken…
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Start squirreling away nuts?
[Update: yes, there has been a title change. The old one was stupid.] The other day, some weather geek friends of mine and I were exchanging emails about the early…
TV…no, wait…rain causes autism
A few months ago we looked at a paper that purported to show that watching TV causes autism. Well, that paper has finally been peer reviewed, and therefore published. It's…
