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“No Convincing Evidence That Depression Is Associated With, Or Caused By, Lower Serotonin Concentrations Or Activity”
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“No Convincing Evidence That Depression Is Associated With, Or Caused By, Lower Serotonin Concentrations Or Activity”

That lack of, or low, serotonin drives "depression" is a medial truism, say many. Those who say it most strongly are those companies manufacturing chemicals to boost serotonin levels (or…
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Lancet Says 1 in 6 Worldwide Deaths by Pollution: 67% More Than Coronadoom
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Lancet Says 1 in 6 Worldwide Deaths by Pollution: 67% More Than Coronadoom

You've seen the headline, "World Ends: Favored Victims Hardest Hit," and you've laughed. The Noble Victims differ, slightly, by country. There is no class of being nobler or respected or…
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What The Sports Illustrated Curse Says About The Reproducibility Crisis
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What The Sports Illustrated Curse Says About The Reproducibility Crisis

The so-called Sports Illustrated curse is easy to understand. A player or team excels, which is to say it does much better than they usually do, the exceptional performance attracts…
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Massive Over-Certainties In Medicine: Bad Statistics, Bad Experiments
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Massive Over-Certainties In Medicine: Bad Statistics, Bad Experiments

Ready to Follow The Science? Let's listen to the lamentations of its lecturers and lovers. The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply…
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Global Warming To Create Cold Which Will Cause Mass Extinctions: Experts’ Model
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Global Warming To Create Cold Which Will Cause Mass Extinctions: Experts’ Model

Reporter Leslie Stahl once had herself filmed walking by a power plant's smokestack. She said, "There could be anything coming out of there." Unless "we" acted. She asked her ardent…
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Telekinesis: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification
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Telekinesis: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification

We continue our series of wondering about the foundations of science. Not only is mechanistic materialism false, for the many reasons we'll discuss, but it is a thoroughly enervating philosophy.…
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Why You Shouldn’t Trust Epidemiologists: Natural Gas & Elderly Deaths Edition
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Why You Shouldn’t Trust Epidemiologists: Natural Gas & Elderly Deaths Edition

I'm always on about Experts, which are credentialed trained individuals who support the regime, so I thought it well to show Experts in action. One way is through the use…
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How Predictive Statistics Can Help Alleviate, But Not Eliminate, The Reproducibility Crisis
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How Predictive Statistics Can Help Alleviate, But Not Eliminate, The Reproducibility Crisis

Predictive statistics can help alleviate the Reproducibility Crisis by, in a word, eliminating p-values. And replacing them with superior measures more useful in quantifing the uncertainty present. Below is some,…
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    ...and I saw 5 or 25 in the figure. The division answer never occurred to me. Got all the rest…

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    If someone asks a question that is conditional on some evidence or rule that they conveniently (or purposely) leave out,…

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    The answer for the pictured question is obviously '1', as the slot already has a '1' in it, which has…

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    Wittgenstein gave some examples like this in his Remarks on the Foundation of Mathematics, a book I had no business…

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