Posted inFun
Bad Dates
No post today. Yesterday late I had some bad dates, or maybe it was figs; or possibly it was the food I ate a place I didn't want to go.…
Posted inCulture Philosophy
Decadence Data: Or, A Doomed Demos Dances
All of these indicators of our quickening hoot-hollering yeah-baby! slide into the muck made the news on the same day. We dare not cast our net wider for fear of…
Posted inStatistics
Time Series Aren’t Easy: Tornado Deaths Example
Time series are the most abused statistics in the physical sciences. (It's an endless, raucous, peer-reviewed contest for the worst in the "soft sciences.") The Mann problem (is that a…
Posted inPhilosophy Statistics
Physical Probability Doesn’t Exist
There have been many attempts to tie probability to physical chance. Here, briefly and for discussion, is why I think all of them fail. Ontology does not recapitulate epistemology Let…
Posted inBook review Philosophy
True Reason: Confronting the Irrationality of the New Atheism Reviewed
Answer me honestly. How rational is it to believe any of the following: Science can explain everything, even itself; The reason anything exists is because of the laws of gravity,…
Posted inCulture
Trigger Warnings And The Feminismization Of America
Update New & Improved title! I think it was Clint Eastwood who, as Dirty Harry, gave the world's most famous trigger warning: I know what you're thinking: "Did he fire…
Posted inCulture
Global Warming Update: Titanic Sunk! Contest Update: Other Historical Events. Update: Not Me!
Been a while since I looked out the climate window, because why? Because I figured there'd be nothing to see. After two decades of failed forecasts I assumed most modelers…
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Animals Suing People, People Suing Animals: Lawyers Rejoice
An increasing crime rate Regular readers will know both of my deep interest in animal rights and in the law. This is why, as a side business, but always pro…