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Who Do You Trust More: A Sturgis Biker or An Academic Economist Waving His Wee P-value Around?
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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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Do not smooth times series, you hockey puck!
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Do not smooth times series, you hockey puck!

Welcome to the week of classical posts on global warming, now "climate change", a subject which I had hoped had faded into obscurity, but, alas, has not. Your author has…
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Thirdhand Smoking: A Triumph Of Wee P-Values
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Thirdhand Smoking: A Triumph Of Wee P-Values

We last did third-hand smoking back in 2011. Even then I didn't think the concept would far. How silly can you get? Pretty silly. Thanks to Dan Hughes we have…
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How Bad Science Becomes The Science: Climate & Public Health Example
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How Bad Science Becomes The Science: Climate & Public Health Example

This post is also available as a podcast. My voice improves. We're working on putting these into a regular feed. Or watch at YouTube. In my not-yet-banned talk on the…
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Experts: Not Showing Ads Leads To 94,867 Fewer Cases Of Obesity In London
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Experts: Not Showing Ads Leads To 94,867 Fewer Cases Of Obesity In London

Repeat after me: all models only say what they are told to say. https://twitter.com/MayorofLondon/status/1554464060732735488 An incredible result, says the mayor of London. Let's see how this incredible result came to…
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It Was Always Clear Masks Don’t Work In Stopping Respiratory Viruses
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It Was Always Clear Masks Don’t Work In Stopping Respiratory Viruses

Listen to the podcast on YouTube (if they don't whack it for hurting their feelings), BitChute, or Gab. Dear reader, a full-on spacesuit equipped with oxygen tanks, or with filters…
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Proof Probability & Statistics & AI Don’t Discover Cause
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Proof Probability & Statistics & AI Don’t Discover Cause

Everybody has read, or seen adaptations of, Bram Stocker's documentation of Dracula, the undead count, unlate of Transylvania. From these pages and films, we all know how to kill a…
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The Common Cause In All Reproducibility Crises
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The Common Cause In All Reproducibility Crises

Here is a cartoon, but a revealing one. Type "reproducibility crisis in" in your search engine and let it suggest the ending of the sentence, as we did here: Science,…
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