I use the word "random" in the sense that you did not know what topics I would select today. And I use the word know in its logical sense. On…

If you follow radio, you will know that Don Imus was fired last year for his hip hop-inspired "nappy-headed hos" comment. For this quip, he was cast outside the gate…

The way peer review works is broken, according to a new finding by John Ioannidis and colleagues in their article "Why Current Publication Practices May Distort Science". The authors liken…

I am wrong about a lot of things (see my essay "Let them Fail"), and it is a truism to say that I might be wrong about this, but I…

(This is a modified excerpt from my forthcoming---he said hopefully---book, on the subject of why probability cannot be relative frequency. This is to be paired with the essay on why…

Many people have been sending me various tidbits about rampant global warming insanity, but it's taking me a long time to get round to posting them. This darn book of…