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Insanity & Doom Update XXX
Item Top doctor: Ban deadly blades from our kitchens ONE of Scotland's leading doctors has called for a ban on "killer" kitchen knives. Dr John Crichton, the new chairman of…
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(Hot) Air Let Out of California’s Global Warming Lawsuit
The California court climate class ordered by a judge has ended---with everybody agreeing the climate has changed. This is good news. It means anybody who calls an oil company representative…
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Uncertainty: The Soul of Models, Probability & Statistics. Chapter Abstracts
This post originally appeared right before the Uncertainty did. Now that we're 1.5 years out, it's time for a re-post. Buy it now, but it today, and buy it again…
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Another Proof of the Uselessness of P-values
Susan Holmes has done us a service by writing clearly the philosophy of the p-value in her new paper "Statistical Proof? The Problem of Irreproducibility" in the Bulletin of the…
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Fire and Fury: It’s False, That’s How We Know It’s True
Stream: The False-But-True Fallacy There's concern in the City of Others Riches (Washington D.C.) that Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury book about the Trump White House contains as much truth…
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Washington Post to Christians on Christmas Morning: Jesus Didn’t Exist
Stream: Washington Post to Christians on Christmas Morning: Jesus Didn't Exist Early Christmas morning, the Washington Post thought it would be wise to stick its thumb in the eyes of…
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The Final Fall of the Church of England
This is a collection of articles indicative of what is predicted to be the final fall of the Church of England. Think of it as an Insanity & Doom update…
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Insanity & Doom Update XV
Item Keep under-25s out of adult prisons, MPs urge Young offenders up to the age of 25 should be kept out of adult prisons because of "irrefutable evidence" that the…