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Lady Lawyers Become — Gasp! — Science Deniers

Two ladies, both involved in legal academia, have written an astonishing paper in the Journal of Criminology. They insist lawyers for the defense should be called "guilt deniers", and that…

Statistics

Hot New The Science: Kids Are Having Climate Emotions

Way, way back I ran a quarter-hearted contest for the Worst Science of the Year. Keeping up with the tsunami of dreck flowing out of academia proved impossible, however. Worse,…

Book review

The Don’t Just Stand There, Do Something Fallacy — Excerpt From Everything You Believe Is Wrong

In the talk I gave about The Most Infamous Coronavirus Model, the one that caused many governments to gleefully embrace panic, I made the point that an implicit premise in…

Culture Philosophy

The Many Horrors, Unintended Consequences & Undesirabilities Of Voting

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…

Statistics

Gambler’s Fallacy Not As Crazy As Mathematician’s Fallacy

A new walks-into-a-bar joke begins (thanks to reader Kip Hansen for the tip): A mathematician, a philosopher and a gambler walk into a bar. As the barman pulls each of…

Class Statistics

Class 7: Uncertainty & Probability Theory: The Logic of Science: Logic Intuition Check

Link to all Classes. Video Thanks to an anonymous donor for the gift of the new equipment, which has resulted in a New & Improved! picture and sound. Thanks, too,…

Philosophy

The Great Grand Bluff Of Science

Everybody knows the story of the turtles. The earth is held up by four large elephants, some say, which stand on the shell of an enormous turtle. When asked what…

Statistics

Physicist Discovers He Has No Free Will: Chooses To Write Book To Say He Cannot Make Choices

Robert Sapolsky, a Stanford academic, took decades---decades, he says---to conclude he does not have free will. He chose now as the time to tell us of his decades-long, fruitless search…

Milton Hathaway on Even The Woke Say Science Is Petering OutJune 4, 2025
I seem to be missing something here. The "Average CD" chart shows a marked decline, while the "Total Papers" chart…
Uncle Mike on Even The Woke Say Science Is Petering OutJune 4, 2025
The problem, in a nutshell, is the trending longitudinal bibliometrics of stochastic heuristics. Vouchsafe the imperative and quotidian drivel perpetuates.
Milton Hathaway on Expert Nathan Confas: Experts Know BestJune 4, 2025
There is a well-known phenomenon in my occupation (engineering), and, I assume, in many other occupations. By nature, engineers love…
brad.tittle on Even The Woke Say Science Is Petering OutJune 4, 2025
I take umbrage with that attack on being nice... Then I look in the mirror and realize that I haven't…
Leonard on Even The Woke Say Science Is Petering OutJune 4, 2025
I wonder what percentage of “papers” are AI-generated in the last 5 years. For that matter, I wonder how many…