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Funniest Thing To Happen In Science In Years
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Funniest Thing To Happen In Science In Years

We've all seen those videos in which hersterical (there is no misspelling) chubby women rant at their cellphone cameras in cars. They begin their fantasies slowly, saying single phrases after…
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Pray For The Downfall, Ruin, Confusion & Conversion Of The Doctors & Experts Causing Transanity
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Pray For The Downfall, Ruin, Confusion & Conversion Of The Doctors & Experts Causing Transanity

RFK, Jr: "When I was a kid, we had shooting clubs at our school." "There's never been a time in America, in the history of humanity, where people walk into…
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Class 63: My Correlation Is Causation Because My P Is Wee
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Class 63: My Correlation Is Causation Because My P Is Wee

It would be a good joke to conclude "If Pr(Data we didn't see | Cause false) is small then Cause is true", but it isn't. People believe it. Peers review…
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The Right & Wrong Way To Do (Electromagnetic) Science: Interview With Hans G. Schantz
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The Right & Wrong Way To Do (Electromagnetic) Science: Interview With Hans G. Schantz

Dr. Hans G. Schantz, Principal Scientist at the Society for Post-Quantum Physics, is currently crowdfunding Fields & Energy Book I: Fundamentals & Origins of Electromagnetism, the first volume in a…
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World Ends In 25 years! Towns Become Slaughterhouses! Peter Thiel Disguises Self As Sheep!
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World Ends In 25 years! Towns Become Slaughterhouses! Peter Thiel Disguises Self As Sheep!

New Zealand! Where, at the end of the world, men are men, and the sheep are nervous. I don't mean end of the world, you understand, as in the bottom.…
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Deniers Refusing To Die From Climate Change Heat Waves
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Deniers Refusing To Die From Climate Change Heat Waves

The lurid headline! "Heatwave likely killed 263 people in London, study estimates". The "heatwave" was a small increase in daily temperatures experienced in the UK at the end of this…
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Class 62: Die P-value, Die! Die! Die!
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Class 62: Die P-value, Die! Die! Die!

We want Pr(H|Evidence), we get Pr(Data we didn't see | H false). And then everybody pretends they are the same. Why why why. Video https://youtu.be/WIZN3BesJps Links: YouTube * Twitter -…
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Research: Solar Activity Causes High Blood Pressure
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Research: Solar Activity Causes High Blood Pressure

In the Class, which I know all readers are dutifully following, bless you, I often cite Tyler Vigen's Spurious Correlations site. It is a glorious (growing) compendium of ridiculous results…
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