The title quote is from David Stove, coming in a 1985 essay entitled "Jobs for Girls". That date is as good as any to celebrate as the birth of Woke,…

Two ladies, both involved in legal academia, have written an astonishing paper in the Journal of Criminology. They insist lawyers for the defense should be called "guilt deniers", and that…

From a recent issue of NEJM, "The Pediatrician’s Lament", with Abstract, "With U.S. politics threatening to erase the gains of science, reduce access to vaccines, and undermine their vast public…

Some libertarian on Twitter said that my arguments against immigration were bad. I hadn't by that time made any, except to point out his utilitarian argument that measles rates had…

Here my friends is the whole of probability and uncertainty, in highlight form. A quick overview of where we have been, what we're doing, and where we're going. All can…

Remember! Everybody can and should read Part I. Part II today requires the Class background. Uncertainty & Probability Theory: The Logic of Science Video https://videopress.com/v/siBqnPxX?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Links: YouTube * Twitter -…

Way, way back I ran a quarter-hearted contest for the Worst Science of the Year. Keeping up with the tsunami of dreck flowing out of academia proved impossible, however. Worse,…

Our rulers, as much as we criticize them, exceed at one thing. Spending your money. Few rulers in history have mastered the art as well as ours have. They have…