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Pay Up
Hire Me The government doesn't have a monopoly on research funding. But if you add in the funds of so-called non-governmental organizations---which, as has been noted, announce by their name…
Posted inCulture Statistics
Bad Arguments For Lockdowns & The Burden Of Proof. Also: US States Analysis
The burden of proof that lockdowns work is clearly on those imposing and supporting lockdowns. Lockdown skeptics are under no obligation whatsoever to show lockdowns do not work. Lockdowns are…
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Stop Using P-values & Parameter-Centric Methods
P-values should be banned. Every use of them involves a fallacy or mistake in thinking. "P-values have some good uses." No, they don't. I used every as in every. "P-values…
Posted inBook review Culture
Book Sneak Peek: Imposing Your Beliefs Fallacy
All, here is a segment, a tease, a mere fragment, of an upcoming book of popular fallacies from the chapter Imposing Your Beliefs Fallacy. The Imposing Your Belief Fallacy occurs…
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Australia Goes Full Anti-Catholic, Forces Priests To Violate Confessional
The Australian state of Victoria has passed an anti-Catholic law, which they believe would force priests to reveal what happened in the confessional. So reports The Age. The Victorian government…
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Nice To Eat You
They're working hard at ensuring Soylent Green was a documentary. Next time you go to a megacorporate restaurant and it tries to sell you trendy "impossible" or "mystery" meat, make…
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The Epidemiologist Fallacy Strikes Again: Premature Birth Rate Edition
Hypothesis testing leads to more scientific nonsense than any other practice, including fraud. Hypothesis testing, as regular readers know, cannot identify cause. It conflates decision with probability and leads to…
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Let’s Talk About The Trans Movement: Part I — Guest Post by Gaudia Certaminis
The transgender movement has hit an unsuspecting public like a ton of bricks. There have been harbingers, but they were easily dismissed. How many tourists have innocently wandered into a…
