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Some Like It Hot: The Hottest Year Ever Inside A Global Warming “Pause”? The Stream. Updates

I rarely ask this, but I'd like you all to go The Stream and pass my article on to as many as you can. (Don't link here, but link at…
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Natural Variations In Weather DO NOT Explain The ‘Pause’: Update, With Letter to Nature

You create a model which predicts the sun will rise in the west. The sun fails to cooperate and rises in the east. Do you: Admit failure and return your…
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Class 74: Contra Effect Sizes
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Class 74: Contra Effect Sizes

Thanks to whoever sent the Dice (there was no note or name attached). They work! Some are recognizing testing is flawed, but they seek refuge in "effect sizes", which is…
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Class 73: How To Tell If You Have Bad Dice
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Class 73: How To Tell If You Have Bad Dice

This is the most in-depth, complicated Class yet. But it has everything. Every probability problem turns out to be just like asking Pr(Dice loaded|Evidence). I hope you stick by this…
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Diversity Patrol Scanning Citations For Victims
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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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Funniest Thing To Happen In Science In Years
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Funniest Thing To Happen In Science In Years

We've all seen those videos in which hersterical (there is no misspelling) chubby women rant at their cellphone cameras in cars. They begin their fantasies slowly, saying single phrases after…
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Don’t Lose Sleep Over Research On “Climate Change” & Sleep Apnea
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Don’t Lose Sleep Over Research On “Climate Change” & Sleep Apnea

Here's the propaganda headline: "Climate change is making it harder for us to sleep: Study". Which cannot be believed. Yet if they would have said "Climate change research making it…
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Miracle Or Coincidence? What Are The Chances?
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Miracle Or Coincidence? What Are The Chances?

Here is an anecdote---one of several in a theme, they say---about the actor Jim Caviezel during the filming of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ: This was especially evident…
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