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Eat Soy, Save The Planet: Al Gore Update
Eat Soy, Save The Planet. Save the planet from what and for whom we are never told. A climate with a slight increase in global mean temperature can't destroy the…
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An Infinity of Null Hypotheses — Another Anti-P-Value Argument
This is extracted from this set of papers, which should be read in full. An ordinary regression model is written mu = beta_0x_1 + ... + beta_0x_p, where mu…
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The Conceit of AI
It helps every time you hear "AI" to think "statistical model". Because, of course, that's what AI is. Statistical models layered with clever data processing, that is. Curve fitting. Saying…
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Control Groups With No Cancers In Hormesis Data Sets
A well known paper by Duport et al. on radiation hormesis makes a statement about control groups which is not quite right. The paper is "Database of Radiogenic Cancer in…
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Science Retracts Paper That Claimed Black Babies Born Smaller Because Of Police Violence
See this peer-reviewed, but then-retracted, paper "Police violence and the health of black infants" by some person calling his- or herself Joscha Legewie? After it was peer reviewed by knowledgeable…
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Some Coronavirus Predictions Are Coming True
CDC Correctly Predicts Second Wave https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1252707856442327041 Also: CDC Director: Next Winter's COVID-19 Season Could Be Even Worse "There's a possibility that the assault of the virus on our nation next…
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The Coronabomb — Guest Post by Big Momma
Regular readers: No Doom tomorrow. Three major targets of the Green New Deal have been destroyed or are being destroyed by the reaction to the pandemic: the Energy Sector; the…
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An Egregious Statistical Horror Story — Reprint Of George Gilder Column
Used with permission from the original American Institute for Economic Research article. Regular readers: No Doom tomorrow. With the latest reports of plummeting death rates from all causes, this crisis…
