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The Future of Scientific Publications: Abandon Journals?
It took three years--or was it four?---for a paper I submitted to the august journal Annals of Statistics to wend its way through peer review. When it came back to…
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Realism vs. Anti-Realism I: Introduction — Guest Post by G. Rodrigues
The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve. We should…
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Caring Is Killing Us: What’s Wrong With Benevolence by David Stove
This review ran last August, but because of pressures of work and the relevance this important book has to our upcoming elections, it's time for another look. Regular posts resume…
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Debate Thread: “Where Was This Romney Before?” Always There
Chris Matthews looked as though he saw the men with the nets coming for him, the tingles evidently having traveled from his leg and lodging in his frontal cortex. An…
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Scientists: GOP Women More Feminine Than Dems
Science! Unadulterated, peer-reviewed, glorious science! What else but science could have provided this picture, which was taken whole from the University of California press release on the shocking new scientific,…
Posted inPhilosophy
8 Great Philosophical Questions That We’ll Never Solve—Update: Solved!
Surfing the internet is the wrong metaphor. Surfing is to skillfully ride a wave for thrills towards a destination. Aimlessly clicking enticing headlines in an effort to avoid responsibility and…
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Why I Am Becoming A Democrat
This will come as a severe shock to long-time readers, but I am changing my political affiliation. Perhaps some of you saw it coming. I did not. To me, the…
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Dominicans And Jesuits Battle It Out Over Thomism—Guest Post by John Kelleher
First, I want to thank Matt for all he does. Not every Statistician to the Stars has risked career and fortune to teach an extraordinary and fruitful revolution in statistics,…