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The 0.3% “Consensus”—Guest Post by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley

A major peer-reviewed paper by four senior researchers has exposed grave errors in an earlier paper in a new and unknown journal that had claimed a 97.1% scientific consensus that…

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The Data Is The Data, Not The Model: With Climatology Time Series Example

How not to plot The following plot was sent to me yesterday for comment. I cannot disclose the sender, nor the nature of the data, but neither of these are…

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A Common Fallacy In Global Warming Arguments

Our post today is provided by Terry Oldberg, M.S.E., M.S.E.E., P.E. Engineer-Scientist, Citizen of the U.S. That's a lot of letters, Terry! Oldberg joined our Spot the Fallacy Contest, which…

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The Consensus On Global Cooling

It is an interesting exercise to read press reports of the Consensus. The Consensus as was, not as is. The Consensus as of 1975, when the sky was literally going…

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The Regnerus Controversy: Children In Traditional Families Do Better Than Those Raised In Non-Traditional Settings

Originally published 24 July 2012. No changes have been made, though I'm sorely tempted to comment on the weeds descending from Regnerus's chin. Doubtless the nastiest phenomenon in nature is…

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Logic: Peter Kreeft’s Summa Philosophica Part I

Since we had so much fun pulling apart Ed Feser's The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism (start here), I thought we'd do the same for Peter Kreeft's…

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What’s Wrong With Hypothesis Testing: Reader Question

I received this email from long-time reader Ivin Rhyne, which is so well put that I thought we should all see it (I'm quoting with permission): Matt, I just got…

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Scientists Too Sure Of Themselves: Except, Of Course, Climatologists And Neuroscientists

Since most of us are ill inclined to labor until Monday next, I don't want to post anything of momentous importance until then---accepting, as we must, that all that appears…

tired citizen on The Various Solutions To Black Crime AnalyzedSeptember 16, 2025
Other than complete separation - which Mr. Briggs astutely points out will never happen, there is no solution. They are…
NLR on On The Myths Of ScientismSeptember 15, 2025
That was a good article by Grothendieck. I'm glad he mentioned so-called progress as one of the problems of scientism.…
Uncle Mike on On The Myths Of ScientismSeptember 15, 2025
I think I may be channeling Grothendeick but without the genius part. Or turning into him like Kafka's caterpillar. What…
John Pate on On The Myths Of ScientismSeptember 15, 2025
I'm considering that adopting flat Earth as my model is the way forward, as an antidote to all this nonsense…
McChuck on The Various Solutions To Black Crime AnalyzedSeptember 13, 2025
@John - If you don't know already, you haven't been paying attention for, oh, your entire life. But you probably…