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We made Joker!
UPDATE: apologies to those who tried to comment from 1 am to 5 am EST Wednesday. My hosting service was doing maintenance and comments were locked out. All is well…
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What appeal to authority means and what it doesn’t
This article is meant to be the first is a small series of demonstrations of how not and how to argue for or against climate activism. The level of argumentation…
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Peer review
Here is how peer review roughly works. An author sends a paper to a journal. An editor nearly always sends the paper on to two or more referees. The referees…
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About
Substack Mirror wmbriggs.substack.com Résumé I am a wholly independent writer, statistician, scientist and consultant. Previously a Professor at the Cornell Medical School, a Statistician at DoubleClick in its infancy, a…
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When zombies were scary
Ronald Reagan said that the ten scariest words in the English language are "Hello, I'm from the government and I'm here to help." In terms of sheer mayhem and spirited…
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Guest Post by Paul “Population Bomb” Ehrlich: Fight the Climate Skeptic Conspiracy!
This is satire.1 Hi, I'm scientist Paul Ehrlich. You might remember me from such failed predictions as "Everybody's Going to Die by 1984!" and "Tin to Become More Precious than…
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2000 Scientists Demand Climate Action! Part I
Let's suppose everything you have heard about global warming is true. It really will warm by a half-degree Centigrade by 2050, or even by three-quarters of a degree, or whatever.…
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My Answers to Willis Eschenbach’s 14 + 2 Questions
Repost Mr Eschenbach had not had the chance to respond to this article before the two weeks wherein comments are automatically closed have elapsed. This re-post will allow him, and…
