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With Painted Nails, Toxic Femininity Squeezes Science
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With Painted Nails, Toxic Femininity Squeezes Science

You and I, dear reader, have seen scores of lousy papers in Nature, and its subsidiary journals, over the years. The proportion of these science stink bombs is increasing, as…
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Why The Regime Insists Party Members Lie
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Why The Regime Insists Party Members Lie

Stay with me on this story. It's not big in itself, but telling. So a lefty politician is running for mayor in the Taiwan city of Taoyuan. He belongs to…
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Top Scientists Plead For Someone To Calculate The Probability Of The End Of The World
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Top Scientists Plead For Someone To Calculate The Probability Of The End Of The World

Here's how the AP climate doom article starts: Experts are ignoring the worst possible climate change catastrophic scenarios, including collapse of society or the potential extinction of humans, however unlikely,…
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The MIT Dahn Yoga Brain Respiration Experiment: How Belief In Failed Theories Persists
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The MIT Dahn Yoga Brain Respiration Experiment: How Belief In Failed Theories Persists

This article began as a series beginning 3 January 2009. I thought it well to revisit it as an example of how to investigate controversial Science. Clever readers will notice…
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How Many People Are Dying & Of What These Days
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How Many People Are Dying & Of What These Days

Been a long while since we updated the coronadoom numbers. The big reason for our tardiness is the CDC is always late in reporting numbers, by at least eight weeks,…
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How Many Digits Do You Report? A Surprising Answer
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How Many Digits Do You Report? A Surprising Answer

Question from Anon (with added paragraphifications): Message: Dear Dr Briggs, I am a lay man in statistics, who has tried to avoid this kind of sport as much as possible,…
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Why The “Climate Emergency”?
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Why The “Climate Emergency”?

The powers that run Biden are pushing him to declare a "climate emergency." I don't know the exact strengths and motivations of the elites touting this inside the White House,…
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A People’s History of COVID-19
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A People’s History of COVID-19

This essay first appeared at Mars Review of Books. SCIENCE Listen to The Science! Here is what The Science said: Stay inside for two weeks and we’ll flatten the curve.…
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    Never mind P values, follow the money.

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