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Researchers Discover Parents Label Animals By Binary Sex At Zoos

Today a paper which is the almost certain winner of the Third Annual WMBriggs.com Bad Science Award (First winner; Second winner). Discovered by reader Nate Winchester, we have the peer-reviewed…

Culture Statistics

Pope Says Using Paper & Plastic A Sin

If you're a Christian, what do you suppose is the most pressing problem in the world today? The rapid fading of Christianity in the West? The dramatic increase in, and…

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Stream: xkcd’s Global Warming Time Series Mistakes

Today's post is at the Stream: xkcd's Global Warming Time Series Mistakes. The popular web cartoon xkcd has provided a wonderful opportunity to plug my must-read (and too expensive) book…

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Bad Science Used to Block Americans’ Access to Life-Saving Technology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbf_TXqEY-Y Our friend Jane Orient, lead doc at Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, put out the release below, in which she very kindly mentions Yours Truly. The AAPS runs…

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Stream: Did Ohio’s New Abortion Law Cause An Increase In Adverse Events?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwn0QBhy2TQ Today's post is at The Stream: Did Ohio's New Abortion Law Cause An Increase In Adverse Events? ...The drugs mifepristone and misoprostol are sometimes injected into pregnant women to…

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Just What Is Signal And What Is Noise?

There are two senses of Signal and Noise (SN). The first is obvious: a signal, some known phenomenon, is corrupted by outside forces, where these caused corruptions are the noise.…

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Stream: President Obama Once Again Imagines He Will Save The World

Today's post is at The Stream: President Obama Once Again Imagines He Will Saves The World. On his inauguration---perhaps apotheosis is a better word---President Obama said that the world would…

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Summary Against Modern Thought: Intellectual Substances Are Immaterial

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. Some mop-up…

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