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NOAA Hires Climate Realist, Media Strokes Out
Dear Men of the Right, you might complain that you have not got all you wanted from President Trump. But you will not be able to deny he has the…
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Who Do You Trust More: A Sturgis Biker or An Academic Economist Waving His Wee P-value Around?
The only thing right about that new Sturgis Biker paper everybody is talking about is the opening quotation from somebody calling himself Smash Mouth (asterisks original): "Now we're all here…
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Coronavirus Update XXX: Our Governments Have Grown Weary Of Us
No End In Sight Last week the big news was the juicing of death counts, which came as no surprise to us. What might have been missed was the section…
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BLACK! Babies Die At White Doctors’ Hands! Wee Ps Say So
Week or two back the world was shocked to learn that white doctors were killing BLACK! babies. Not the ones that haven't escaped their mothers' wombs: that's old, and even…
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What Does It Mean To Assess Risk Wrong? Coronadoom Example
There is, as de Finetti said, no such thing as probability. So there is no such thing as risk, either, since risk relies upon probability. If there is no such…
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How To Really Check For Global Warming: Reader Question
From Alan Tomalty we have this question: No one has been able to separate out the amount of warming due to natural causes and amount due to CO2. Therefore I…
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Coronavirus Update XXV: The Suppression Of Hydroxychloroquine & Other Conspiracies
The first section of this are fun conspiracies to highlight the political crisis. The second section are the numbers showing the medical crisis is over. The third section discusses the…
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Mathematicians Can’t Solve Reality Equation, Want To Ban Predictive Policing
Remember how, despite warnings to the contrary, many of you thought STEM was safe from the holiness spirals and vice signaling working its way through academic like salmonella through a…