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Selling Fear Is A Risky—And Profitable—Business: Part I
Not a trick question: what's the difference between a risk of one in ten million and one of two in ten million? The official answer is "Not much." Though I…
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Global Warming To Cause New Crisis. What Will It Be?
Seems the Arctic ice sheet has refused to do what it was told by computer models. The models "conservatively" insisted the ice would be gone entirely by 2013, yet the…
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Analysing Perceptions Of Cute Videos Of Threatened Species
Another peer-reviewed paper for you. "Tickled to Death: Analysing Public Perceptions of 'Cute' Videos of Threatened Species (Slow Lorises -- Nycticebus spp.) on Web 2.0 Sites" by K. Anne-Isola Nekaris…
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fMRI Discovers Freud, Distribution Plushies Lurking In Brain
Regular readers will know my opinion on fMRI research. Nothing but newfangled electronic phrenologic theory-discovering machines. Well, I take it all back. Yes, the new paper "A Triple Dissociation of…
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The 0.3% “Consensus”—Guest Post by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley
A major peer-reviewed paper by four senior researchers has exposed grave errors in an earlier paper in a new and unknown journal that had claimed a 97.1% scientific consensus that…
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Monday Mail
Inbox I'm several hundred emails behind. This weekend, always the slowest of the year, allowed me to catch up some. I appreciate very much all the missives and apologize if…
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Abortion Safety: Doctors V. Nurses & Physician Assistants & Midwives—Part I
Cautionary Introduction In Part II, we will examine the paper "Safety of Aspiration Abortion Performed by Nurse Practitioners, Certified Nurse Midwives, and Physician Assistants Under a California Legal Waiver" in…
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Some Hollywood Money Statistics
Here, for no reason I can identify except I found it fun and the last long weekend of summer is upon us, are some statistics on the state of Hollywood…