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England, Where Everybody’s a Paedophile
Potentially. Everybody's a paedophile potentially. That slogan has been adopted lustily in Merrie Olde England. The beauty of it, as I have often maintained, is that it is a true…
Posted inStatistics
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Substack Mirror wmbriggs.substack.com Résumé I am a wholly independent writer, statistician, scientist and consultant. Previously a Professor at the Cornell Medical School, a Statistician at DoubleClick in its infancy, a…
Posted inFun
Mental Magic and Psychology
I say, Thank God Penn & Teller reveal the workings of their magic tricks. We're all used to it now, but when they first got going they caused a lot…
Posted inPhilosophy
Just what are falling temperatures evidence of?
If increasing temperatures are consistent with or are evidence of global warming, what theory is consistent with or evidence of falling temperatures? Global warming, too? We have to ask this…
Posted inStatistics
Is climatology a pseudoscience?
The short answer, I will disappoint many of you by saying, is no. Like I wrote before, climatologists are generally nice people genuinely struggling with understanding the immense complexities of…