Editor's note I have strong views on statistical "significance", confidence intervals, p-values, and all that, finding them harmful and worse. However, Kossin used these concepts, and a criticism of his…

The promised global cooling article will run Monday. Too good for Saturday. At the bottom of this post will come a short quiz, to see how much you have been…

VACCINE The hope of the vaccines (there are, as you know, many flavors) was that it would calm people down---never mind all the other considerations, which are important but which…

THE UK https://twitter.com/Albion_Rover/status/1348600356754903040 I said last week "The UK has lost its mind." They have moved to Madness Level 11 since then, proposing allowing people outside only once per week,…

I've cleaned up the figures to get to the essential matter faster and easier. NEW LAW Here are portions of the text of New York Assembly Bill A416, which "Relates…

Back in the spring---we have this on camera---the Fabulous Fauci told the truth. Don't wear masks, he said. They're useless. He was right about that, and should have said what…

LOCKDOWNS KILL Suppose a bug is 100% transmissible. Everybody in contact with somebody infected therefore gets it, and passes it on with certainty to the next person they meet. A…

S. Stanley Young, John Droz, Tom Davis, and Ray Belhar for The Science Team I am reporting for a pro bono team of computer scientists and statisticians, The Science Team.…