How to cheat with statistics: CNN ad
In today's New York Post (p. 31) runs a full page add by CNN. The ad itself looks like a PowerPoint presentation, that is, a dull layout driven by bullet…
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The MIT Dahn Yoga Brain Respiration Experiment: Part III
THE EXPERIMENT The test was filmed by several cameras, most from the KIBS people (I have been unable to find any videos on line). The KIBS staff itself was large,…
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What appeal to authority means and what it doesn’t
This article is meant to be the first is a small series of demonstrations of how not and how to argue for or against climate activism. The level of argumentation…
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Today’s groaner
How many bishops does it take to celebrate Earth Hour? Tutu. (....pause for laughter....) Those wrestling guys at the WWF have been sending me emails touting earth hour again. Spokesman…
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You have no choice but to read this
Your decisions are not your own Our gut instinct, our experience, is that we make the decisions to move, to think, to eat, to steal, to lie, to punch and…
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DANCES WITHOUT FEATHERS: I of III
In celebration of my having work, I present something that requires no thinking (on my part). Part II Part III PDF DANCES WITHOUT FEATHERS Part I of III Kick...two,…
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About Half Will Not Pay Federal Income Tax: Plus, A Solution To This Unfairness
What's to stop a large bloc of voters from joining forces to create laws so that they get a free ride, that they, in effect, make everybody else pay their…
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Briggs and Big Oil
The closest I come to "Big Oil" is when I create my spécialité de la maison: bacon-olive-oil confit. Incidentally, that's the only way to cook this miracle pig meat---frying removes…
