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Expert Nathan Confas: Experts Know Best
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Expert Nathan Confas: Experts Know Best

I forgot to remind you of this week's What Are The Chances? video. A truck carrying 216,000 dice spilled onto the highway, and they said the total was exactly 756,000.…
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A Reason The Birthrate Is So Low: Food
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A Reason The Birthrate Is So Low: Food

In the 1970s the fear---there is always fear, much of it imaginary or exaggerated---was mass starvation. There were soon, they said, to be too many people, which would lead to…
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Reproducibility Crises Will Be Forever With Us Until We Abandon Classical Statistics
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Reproducibility Crises Will Be Forever With Us Until We Abandon Classical Statistics

The scientist stood before them.He announced his result with glee.It sounds impossible?Can you say it's not bull?It's true 'cause my P is wee! Until classical statistics, with its focus on…
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The Sun Made To Set On The British Empire – Via Science!
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The Sun Made To Set On The British Empire – Via Science!

The sun will be made to set on that faraway sinking land of legend, unhappy olde England. Because panicked hersterical (there is no misspelling) fretting frightened scientists insist there is…
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How To Claim Your Specialty Suffers From “Climate Change”
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How To Claim Your Specialty Suffers From “Climate Change”

I've told you innumerable times that scientists are good at finding evidence which supports their fancies, and just as lousy, or lousier because of their egos, than others when finding…
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“Climate Change” Is Making People Live Longer!
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“Climate Change” Is Making People Live Longer!

Here's the panicky headline: "Long periods of extreme heat can accelerate biological age, scientists say". Longer periods of extreme heat has been found to accelerate biological age in older adults…
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The Case For Ending Government Funding of Science
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The Case For Ending Government Funding of Science

Direct government funding of science has to end. Here is why, and what should replace it. Some are making a big deal of a new paper in which "researchers found…
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Time To End Bad Science Like This
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Time To End Bad Science Like This

I remind you, yet again, that all models only say what they are told to say. A bland truism. Unless you forget it. Let's now look at two "climate change"…
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