Posted inStatistics
Do not smooth times series, you hockey puck!
Welcome to the week of classical posts on global warming, now "climate change", a subject which I had hoped had faded into obscurity, but, alas, has not. Your author has…
Posted inCulture
How Expertism & The Woke Spreads In Science
The New England Journal of Medicine isn't exactly what its name indicates. It does tend to concentrate on publishing articles on various aspects of medicine. But it also engages in…
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Top Scientists Plead For Someone To Calculate The Probability Of The End Of The World
Here's how the AP climate doom article starts: Experts are ignoring the worst possible climate change catastrophic scenarios, including collapse of society or the potential extinction of humans, however unlikely,…
Posted inCulture
The CDC List Of Official Truths: Magnetic Vaccines Example
You will, I hope, forgive me if I remind you that if there is Official mis- or disinformation, then there must necessarily be Official Truths. And if there exist Official…
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Researchers: Living Under The Sin-Of-Pride Flag Produces Flashbacks To Noah’s Flood
Read this The Science sentence with me and see if you enjoy it as much as I did: "Long before climate change, California’s Great Flood of 1862 stretched up to…
Posted inPodcast Statistics
How Bad Science Becomes The Science: Climate & Public Health Example
This post is also available as a podcast. My voice improves. We're working on putting these into a regular feed. Or watch at YouTube. In my not-yet-banned talk on the…
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Claiming To Be Able To Blame Weather Events On Global Warming
This is not a big story, but it's worth highlighting because of the pernicious effects of science journalism, which suffers from the same faults as political journalism. Emphasis on extremes,…
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Propaganda Masquerading As Climate Science
If you are ignorant in a field, such as I am in ancient Peruvian pottery, you must look to purported authorities to settle disputes that might arise or for guidance…
