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Sleeping Beauty Probability Problem
Update This has been moved up from its original 29 Feb 2012 date on 23 March 2012 to allow additional comments. Update This has been moved up from its original…
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Boy Sues Government To Stop Global Warming. James Hansen Comes Out Of Hiding
I had thought the furor was over, that those who held ultramontane views about climatologists like James "Lock me up!" Hansen (see below the fold) had given up and gone…
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Many Lie About Their Support Of Gay Marriage: Study
Thanks to New York Times's (yes) Russ Douthat who alerted us to the paper "Findings from a Decade of Polling on Ballot Measures Regarding the Legal Status of Same Sex…
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Study Finds 9-Month-Old Babies Are Racist
MSNBC reports this: University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers placed sensors on the heads of 9-month-old babies...and measured brain activity when infants were shown pictures of white and black faces expressing…
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The Dire And Depressing Implications Of Science As Scientism: Two Introductions
A long introduction... Scientism is the fallacy that all that is known and all that can be known, can only be known through scientific methods: that which is testable is…
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Why Republicans Deny Science—And Reality: Request For Help
Update The link to Sam Harris's abysmal study are now provided. That is the (modified) subtitle of the sanctimoniously self-satisfied Chris Mooney's new book, "The Republican Brain: The Science of…
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Statistics Proves Same Drug Both Causes And Does Not Cause Same Cancer
No, the title of today's post is not a joke, even though it has often been used that way in the past. The title was inspired by yesterday's Wall Street…
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Atheists More Motivated By Compassion Than The Faithful?
Why? (Source) Today's title was swiped, word-for-word, from a Live Science press release. This is important because the point I wish to make has to do with how the press…