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Just What Is Signal And What Is Noise?
There are two senses of Signal and Noise (SN). The first is obvious: a signal, some known phenomenon, is corrupted by outside forces, where these caused corruptions are the noise.…
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Lancet Editor: Half Of Science Is Wrong. An Underestimate?
Half of science may be wrong? That may be an underestimate. But at least Richard Horton, the editor in chief of The Lancet, is in the right ballpark. Ballpark? That…
Posted inCulture
Catholic Climate Change Conference: Consensus Confusion. Updates
So the Vatican conference is off and running. I'm not there, and have no insider view, so that best that can be done is to point our telescopes that direction.…
Climatology Isn’t The Only Thing Killing Science
I received this interesting email from reader Mike Nash that I thought would be of interest to all. Nash saw my piece in the Federalist yesterday and commented. Sorry but…
Posted inCulture Statistics
The Global Warming Non-Expert Expert
Reporteritis is the disease, or rather psychiatric condition, common among journalists, brought on by exposure to important people and events. The exposure causes the journalist to feel that he too…
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This Week In Doom. Vampires Fear Being Judged, Climate Lunatics Stick Heads In Sand—For Real
Been a while since we cataloged our latest trends in Doom. Let's continue. Show of hands: how many are with me in saying the suicide of the West will be…
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More Reasons Not To Use The Precautionary Principle: Update
All probability is conditional and we are always interested in some proposition, call it X. We want to know "the probability of X". Well, there is none: not ever. There…
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Give Up Carbon For Lent?
Ought to be easy to give up carbon for Lent, as the Global Catholic Climate Movement suggests1. Step one: don't exhale and don't eat---your breath and food are chock full…
