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Space’s 10 Mistakes People Make When Arguing Science

Reader Ken pointed us to Space.com's click-me-click-me! article "The 10 Mistakes People Make When Arguing Science". Since everybody loves numbered lists, I'll duplicate their efforts here, using their mistakes. Isn't…
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The Miracles-Don’t-Exist-So-Miracles-Don’t-Exist Argument

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=69&v=0d4FHHf00pY Say something nice: the Miracles-Don't-Exist-So-Miracles-Don't-Exist argument is conditionally true. If miracles are impossible, miracles, it follows logically, don't happen. No escaping the iron cladedness of that (you heard me:…
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Probability’s Empirical Bias

Bit of logic (a favorite example) from our teacher Lewis Carroll: given "All cats understand French and that some chickens are cats", what can we say about the proposition "Some…
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Build Your Own Embryo DNA Kits, Because Justice

A curious statement in Guy Ringler's "Get Ready for Embryos From Two Men or Two Women": ...There likely will be a time when reproductive science could create an embryo from…
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Journal Bans Wee P-values—And Confidence Intervals! Break Out The Champagne!

Well, it banned all p-values, wee or not. And confidence intervals! The journal of Basic and Applied Social Psychology, that is. Specifically, they axed the "null hypothesis significance testing procedure".…
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Response To Trenberth Over “Why Models Run Hot”

Update Be sure to come back on Sunday and see my wrap-up column. A reporter from Nature who could not be brought to understand science was more important than fallacy…
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Reporting On So-Called Climate Reporters: Update 4

Update Be sure to come back on Sunday and see my wrap-up column. The first section of this article contains background on the subject which should be read, the second…
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“The Church Believes In Science.” And That Global Warming Is Akin To Slavery?

Der Spiegel conducted an interview with the President of the Pontifical Science Academy Bischop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo. It's worth going over a few of the questions (I used Google translate).…
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  1. JohnK on Lewontin’s Other Fallacy: Race & IntelligenceSeptember 2, 2026

    I liked the "zinc" metaphor very much. I really appreciate the pains you took on this piece, Matt, which are…

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    Let me say something stupid cuz I'm not vey bright - to me it is an indication of the Existence…

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    I was hoping you wrote about race, because I wanted to hand you a quote, since long ago, but I…

  4. McChuck on Lewontin’s Other Fallacy: Race & IntelligenceSeptember 1, 2026

    DIE, put this way, sounds an awful lot like Lysenkoism.

  5. John Pate on Lewontin’s Other Fallacy: Race & IntelligenceSeptember 1, 2026

    As I'm fond of pointing out, a 100% of the reason you're a man and not a monkey is genetics.…

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