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Coal Dust Is Claimed To Kill Old People: A New Instance of the Epidemiologist Fallacy
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Coal Dust Is Claimed To Kill Old People: A New Instance of the Epidemiologist Fallacy

There are a lot of new readers, and many may not yet have heard of the epidemiologist fallacy. Few tools have been as productive at generating The Science. You know…
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The Meta-Fallacy: The Mother Of All Fallacies
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The Meta-Fallacy: The Mother Of All Fallacies

This is an excerpt from Chapter 26 of Everything You Believe Is Wrong. I am very much interested to learn of reader's experience with this fallacy. Please let us know…
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The Reason Why Much Science Is Broken: Every Use Of P-Values Is A Logical Fallacy
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The Reason Why Much Science Is Broken: Every Use Of P-Values Is A Logical Fallacy

I made this picture for my talk at the first ever public Broken Science event (videos coming soon): Everybody has heard the saying "correlation doesn't imply causation." Taken loosely, it…
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Why The Continuing Appeal Of The Appeal To Non-Authority Fallacy?
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Why The Continuing Appeal Of The Appeal To Non-Authority Fallacy?

Listen to the podcast at YouTube, Bitchute, or Gab. Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce to you proof that "climate change" has completed its transformation from Science into yet…
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Transfallacies — Common Fallacies Used To Justify Transsexualism
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Transfallacies — Common Fallacies Used To Justify Transsexualism

I don't know why they had a special Day of Visibility for "transgenders". You can't miss men in dresses pretending to be women. They are visibility itself. Nevertheless, the Day…
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How to Spot Fallacies – Podcast
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How to Spot Fallacies – Podcast

Last week I was interviewed by Pat Coffin on his show about Everything You Believe Is Wrong. Best part: very little mention of coronadoom. We are all sick sick sick…
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Let Go Your Wee P! — Reader Help Requested
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Let Go Your Wee P! — Reader Help Requested

I flatter myself that this is the best general thing I have written to explain why you must never, not ever, use a p-value, hypothesis test, "significance", Bayes value, or…
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I’m An Expert: I Must Be Right
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I’m An Expert: I Must Be Right

For the closing days of summer, I am posting every chapter of the first edition of Everything You Believe Is Wrong. My enemies ravaged the first edition, inserting typos galore…
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  1. Phil R on Expert Nathan Confas: Experts Know BestJune 3, 2025

    Not sure if relevant, but short personal anecdote. My wife used to work for a pest control company. one time…

  2. JH on Expert Nathan Confas: Experts Know BestJune 3, 2025

    Of course, experts are only considered experts when they say what you want to hear.

  3. JH on Science Claims 7% Of Adults Saw A Mass ShootingJune 3, 2025

    If you believe it is incorrect to conclude that a person with a higher IQ score tends to possess greater…

  4. JH on Science Claims 7% Of Adults Saw A Mass ShootingJune 3, 2025

    Statistics show that individuals aged 80 and older represent roughly 4% of the total population, which is probably the reason…

  5. Ray on Science Claims 7% Of Adults Saw A Mass ShootingJune 3, 2025

    This shows why nobody believes studies by doctors on guns.

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