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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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The Key Role Of Probability & Chance In Science
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The Key Role Of Probability & Chance In Science

I received thoughtful questions from EB about my views of probability and how they fit with science. This is long, but the questions alone make it worth reading. The end…
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On The Cult Of The Victim & Why We Must Reject It
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On The Cult Of The Victim & Why We Must Reject It

I am not enough of a historian to say whether the Cult of the Victim forms in every dying civilization, but it sure has in ours. A Victim group is…
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Class 61: Does This Guy Have ESP? II
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Class 61: Does This Guy Have ESP? II

Hypothesis testing has told us what probably isn't true. It can't see all evidence. Here's how to do it right. Video https://youtu.be/5yoRSQMWle4 Links: YouTube * Twitter - X * Rumble…
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Funding Increases To Foster Even More Cheating In Science
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Funding Increases To Foster Even More Cheating In Science

I don't often discuss cheating in science, because the conclusion "It's bad, don't do it" doesn't need explication. Even those cheating are clever enough to swear to the conclusion's truth.…
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Compulsory Moral Bioenhancement Should Be Covert Says Academic Who Says Ticks Should Be Genetically Modified To Stop You Eating Meat
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Compulsory Moral Bioenhancement Should Be Covert Says Academic Who Says Ticks Should Be Genetically Modified To Stop You Eating Meat

My heart soared like a hawk by the hundreds of supportive comments I got on Twitter from last week's story about two academics who want government to genetically modify ticks…
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  1. Uncle Mike on Deniers Refusing To Die From Climate Change Heat WavesAugust 25, 2025

    Mass insanity seems to peak during summer. It could be the heat, or possibly the space aliens are more active…

  2. Chaeremon on Deniers Refusing To Die From Climate Change Heat WavesAugust 25, 2025

    all poisoned! I asked Grok (the one behind expensive paywall, 2xcheap per 4 hours) about discussing ideas for accentuating modularity…

  3. Edward on Lying Increases Trust In Science, Says AcademicAugust 24, 2025

    What really concerns me most is the pedantic feeling that “solutions” to problems aren’t what we mean. The way I…

  4. Rudolph Harrier on Class 62: Die P-value, Die! Die! Die!August 23, 2025

    P-values enable a lot of shenanigans, and they are dangerous because most of their "honest" users trust them too much…

  5. John Pate on Class 62: Die P-value, Die! Die! Die!August 22, 2025

    ...and another thing: in Fisher's works first understanding the distribution of what you're measuring in population you are sampling from…

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