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Poor Heat
From our very own Ye Olde Statistician comes the tip, "As Rising Heat Bakes U.S. Cities, The Poor Often Feel It Most", a run-of-the-mill NPR weepie, but with a global…
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Return of the Strong Gods by Rusty Reno Reviewed
Reno's contention is that World War II drove people nuts, and that the insanity we see out the window now is the direct result of actions taken to prevent a…
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That Open Letter On BLM From The Berkeley History Professor
The anonymous letter, which can be regarded as in the public domain (it's been fully tweeted, line by line, for instance), is from a purported History Professor "of color" (she…
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What Are P-Values?
Contributor William Raynor sets us a task: Hi Matt, ...I'd still like to see if you can write a column about what an empirical p-value really is without mentioning the…
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Catholic Bishop McElroy Endorses Trump, Criticizes Buttgieg
It's being reported Bishop Robert W. McElroy of San Diego has endorsed President Trump for re-election. McElroy didn't mention Trump by name, but he gave the following hints that Trump…
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Post-Approval Drug Failures: More Reasons To Eliminate P-values & Parameter-Centric Methods
Some comments on the JAMA: Internal Medicine article "An International Perspective on Drugs for Cancer: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times" by Richard Lehman. Drugs increase fast, and…
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AI Is Coming For You!
The picture heading the post is of an AI machine carrying a small child to a paperclip factory. Why is it every time I read one of these evil-AI-destroys-the-world stories…
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Physics & Vertical Causation: The End of Quantum Reality by Wolfgang Smith Reviewed
Top Down One of the proofs of God's existence given to us by our good saint Thomas Aquinas is the argument from essential causal chains. (We have met this many…
