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Student Protests To End After Finals: TWID
I changed the title to put TWID = The Week In Doom at the end. I did this long ago, too, and found it answered. Hilarity Ensues Students, by definition,…
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Look! Up In The Sky! It’s BIRD FLU!
One of my favorite comedic lunatic gibbering fear drippers during the covid panic, and maybe one of yours, too, was Eric Fing-Ding. He used any excuse to say THIS MAY…
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Never Safety First
Here's a headline, drawn from what you will recognize is a large fund: "Safety first when viewing the partial solar eclipse in April". Here is another: "Safety first: Kern County…
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Scientific Peer Review Update
Two stories today, both the same but on opposite ends. Story One: Accurate Paper Rescinded We recently highlighted a paper by Bob Uttl and others in "The World’s Easiest Sociological…
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Stats Challenge Answered: Study Of PFAS & Vaccine Antibodies
I trust you have read the original post (Blog, Substack). If not, do so, because I won't repeat any of it here. However, even if you haven't, you might still…
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Academics Blame Lower Trust In Scientists On Everything But Bad Scientists
The second sentence of the abstract of a new paper about trust in scientists, which is generally high but in some places low, provides the very reason for distrust: "Public…
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CDC Mandates New Hampshire Residents Must Wear Adult Diapers
Yes, you read the headline right. Here's how it came about. Earlier this year a "Diaper Spa" opened its doors in Atkinson, New Hampshire. (Click the link if you think…
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The World’s Easiest Sociological Prediction Has Been Verified
We've discussed the Expansion Team Effect many times. I'm always embarrassed to do so because it's so simple it's a truism. What's weird about it is that, presented one way,…