Does watching TV cause autism?
I have no idea, but two gentlemen from the Johnson School of Management at Cornell and one from the Economics department at Purdue seem to think so. They have written…
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Shifting Baselines Syndrome
If you doubt any claim made about man-made global warming, Jennifer Jacquet thinks you are a "miscreant" and on par with those who deny that "smoking causes cancer." She also…
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Lizards all male climate change club
Nature magazine reports this headline: Condemned to single-sex life by climate change. They are talking about a species of lizards called tuatara that live "on about 30 small islands in…
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How to Cheat: Stats 101 Chapter 14
Here is the link. I've decided to jump ahead a few chapters. Chapters 10 - 13 are very important and cover material that comprises 90% of all the actual statistics…
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CONTEST: Preliminary Discussion of the “Best Internet Conspiracy Theory”
This is the first posting preliminary to the announcement of an Official Contest to find the Best Internet Conspiracy Theory. The Contest will be officially announced in about one week.…
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Spanish Expedition
I have returned from Madrid, where the conference went moderately well. My part was acceptable, but I could have done a better job, which I'll explain in a moment. Iberia…
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Quantifying uncertainty in AGW
My friends, I need your help. I have written a paper on quantifying the uncertainty of effects due to global warming, but the subject is too big for one person.…
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CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF CLIMATE CHANGE PREDICTIONS FROM A SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVE
Here is the link to the symposium which I mentioned a few weeks back. It is being sponsored by the Ram?n Areces Foundation and the Royal Academy of Sciences of…