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Proof Global Warming Is Asinine
Now that the Democrats are poised to triumph over the House, we shall soon daily hear from the likes of Nancy Pelosi and the appalling Raul Grijalva on the tedious…
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What Lousy Philosophy Tells Us About Belief In Global Warming
One reason people doubt global-warming-of-doom is because of lousy philosophers like N. Ángel Pinillos (note the New York Times-sophisticated inclusion of the accent). He wrote a piece entitled (in some…
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Global Warming: Thirty Years Of Hype, Hysteria & Hullabaloo
In the late spring of 1988, Senator Tim Wirth from Colorado (guess his party) called the Weather Bureau and asked what historically was the hottest day of the year in…
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Another Proof of the Uselessness of P-values
Susan Holmes has done us a service by writing clearly the philosophy of the p-value in her new paper "Statistical Proof? The Problem of Irreproducibility" in the Bulletin of the…
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Update: That Silly Asylum Applications & Temperature Fluctuations Paper
Update at bottom. I was asked by Axel Bojanowski, Science Editor at Der Spiegel to examine the Science paper "Asylum applications respond to temperature fluctuations" by Anouch Missirian and Wolfram…
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DDP: Quack Cures For What Doesn’t Ail Us, Part II
I'm at the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness meeting in No-History City, Louisiana. Here's Part II of (an earlier draft of) the speech I gave Saturday. Consider donating $1 for every…
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Union Of Nervous Scientists Hate Facts About Global Warming
Stream: Union Of Nervous Scientists Hate Facts About Global Warming: Don't say 'climate change'. We were promised global warming. No scientist I have ever met has ever---and I mean never---denied…
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AI Does Not Pose A Challenge To Christianity
The theology and philosophy of the Atlantic article "Is AI a Threat to Christianity?" proves that it was all downhill after the schoolmen in the sad twilight of the Middle…