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Hubris & Models: Global Warming Economic Production Edition
COP21 in Paris is fast approaching and the #BigPush is on. That means we're forced to talk about global warming more than I'd like (which is not at all). But…
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Mainstreaming Pedophilia
Yesterday we saw Breitbart and Salon's attempt at mainstreaming Satanism (each side argued for different sects). Today, a brief look at the mainstreaming of pedophilia. The images are the top…
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Having Trouble Deciding Between Brands Of Satanism? Breitbart & Salon Can Help!
It was Halloween, which was probably the excuse for the Breitbart article contrasting good, pure, "safe word" Satanism with bad, politically correct, social-justice-warrior-drenched Satanism. Boo. (Now I've had a few…
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Data Do Not Have Means: Or, The Deadly Sin of Reification Strikes Again!
No, data do not have means. Nor do they have variances, autocorrelations, partial or otherwise, nor moments; nor do they have any other statistical characteristic you care to name. Data…
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The Crisis Of Conservative Catholicism: Ross Douthat’s Erasmus Lecture at First Things
Ross Douthat gave the 28th Erasmus Lecture at the Union League Club (they have a complete set of books on the "Rebellion" in their library) in Manhattan. Your roving reporter…
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It’s World Statistics Day! Death To P-Values, Hypothesis Tests, And False Ascriptions Of Cause! #StatsDay15
Who said the UN doesn't do anything useful? Courtesy of that august body, it's World Statistics Day! Official statistics help decision makers develop informed policies that impact millions of people.…
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Atheists Claim There Is No Such Thing As Gravity—Or Shakespeare!
How's this argument grab you? There are many competing theories of (quantum) gravity. They cannot all be correct. Therefore, they must all be wrong and thus there is no such…
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Chesterton On Polls
I was led by Dale Ahlquist, president of the American Chesterton Society, to an article by Chesterton on the kinds of statistics used in polls. Here is an excerpt (the…