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Why Study Probability?
There is that which is, and that which we can know about what is. Both feed the other. Probability belongs to the second subject. If you want to know what…
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Diversity Patrol Scanning Citations For Victims
Pity me. I just had a paper rejected because, as one reviewer said, "Although your cure for cancer seems genuine, and would likely help people suffering from that dread disease,…
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Stay The Course: Have Some Class
One thing that bothers our guys is microplastics. Tiny bits of plastic, made from manufacturing everything, that make their way through the world, yes, even into our food and water,…
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Class 68: The Philosophy Of Models (Regression): The WRONG Way
Be sure to review the RIGHT way from last week. Today, of the infinite number of ways to go sour, we look at one common way modeling goes awry. Video…
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The Lancet’s New Push To Ban Meat
Science is not the answer. It cannot be "because Science" that you ought to give up meat. Which Harvard scientists want you to do in the name of "justice". And,…
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Changing Clocks In Fall Will Stroke You Out, Fatty: Research
(My enemies changed the title. I have changed it back. They will pay for this insolence.) Daylight savings time is something that angers many performatively, more than in truth. If…
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Autism & Tylenol
Warning: I have not read all the papers on this subject. My experience is in these kinds of papers, which is to say, turning correlations into claims of causality. I…
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The Charlie Kirk Killing Theories: The (Non)-Mathematics Of Conspiracy Theories 2
There is a point about bad science at the end. I didn't count, but I think it was less than 48, and surely less than 72, hours after Charlie Kirk…