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Frequenstism Is Entirely Ad Hoc; And So Are Priors. Use The Third Way Instead

https://twitter.com/learnfromerror/status/638841417461276672 Short note today, because today, and most days for the next couple of weeks, are book days. I am nearly finished with the damned thing. I'm now handling drudgery…

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Rare Win For Forces Of Sanity: Or, PM2.5 Isn’t As Scary As We’ve Been Told

Quick note to a news story in which I have an interest. WORLD LOGISTICS CENTER: Moreno Valley OKs megawarehouse on 3-2 vote After three years of controversy that has divided…

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Briggs Is Available To Speak. Update

You've seen the videos...You've read the papers...You know the blog...Now hire the man! For a limited time only---All men are mortal, Briggs is a man, etc.---W. M. Briggs is available…

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Probability & Statistics Cannot Prove Cause

Correlation I was at the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness conference in Ontario (LA) California and gave my paper The Crisis Of Evidence: Why Probability And Statistics Cannot Discover Cause, which…

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Idols With Wee P Values. Statistics As Ritual

Or, rather, wee p-values are idolized. And it isn't just me saying so. Reader Dan Hughes points us to Gerd Gigerenzer and Julian Marewski's peer-reviewed paper "Surrogate Science: The Idol…

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Corrigan Brothers’ Statistics Song. Finally Released!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k2j96hpEkM Ladies and Gentlemen, it has arrived. The world famous Corrigan Brothers have another hit! What they did for Barack Obama in their mega-smash There's No One As Irish As…

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I Am In Awe Of What Passes For Science

I'm traveling to the Heartland Climate Conference today. Special speakers dinner and pep talk later, and, rumor has it, cigars and whiskey. I started that rumor, and I have cigars,…

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Hypothesis Testing Relies On The Fallacy Of False Dichotomy

Classical hypothesis testing is founded on the fallacy of the false dichotomy. The false dichotomy says of two hypotheses that if one hypothesis is false, the other must be true.…

Rich on Last Call For Alcohol-Cancer PapersOctober 30, 2025
Surely the same data "proves" cancer causes alcohol consumption?
Dana on UFO Hits United Flight. All Survive. This Time!October 29, 2025
What else but a meteorite could have caused the damage to the Tesla windscreen? From Brave browser : A South…
John Pate on Last Call For Alcohol-Cancer PapersOctober 29, 2025
These studies are to give spurious "moral" justification to desired government policies, most obviously here heavy taxation of alcohol. You're…
gareth on UFO Hits United Flight. All Survive. This Time!October 29, 2025
Given that a met balloon had been released shortly before the impact (and NOTAMed) and that it stopped transmitting at…
Uncle Mike on Last Call For Alcohol-Cancer PapersOctober 29, 2025
Thinking about this sort of crapastrophe of logic and the time and money wasted can drive a sane person to…