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How Nonsense Masquerades As Science: Climate “Code Red” Example
This post is also available as a podcast. As you can tell, I recently lost my voice; and the bad news is that it was found, partially. Or listen on…
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Best Defense When The Not-So-Secret Police Use AI To Claim You Are The Anonymous Tweeter
I want you to memorize something important. Never forget it. Ready? Artificial "intelligence", or AI, is just statistical modeling. (Regular readers already knew this.) Here's something else to know. Some…
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Nervous Chemists Demand Science DIE Harder
You have a pool of, say, 500 professionally trained specialty chemists---which is to say, chemists who specialize in a certain branch of chemistry that has suddenly gained popularity. I'm making…
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More On How Peer Review Generates And Maintains Consensuses
We spoke the other day of the enervating effects of peer review. Today we examine a peer-reviewed paper whose very purpose is to show that peer review exists and is…
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Peer Review & The Continuous Formation Of The Expertocracy
This lady heads the Expertocracy in Europe. The formal name for her position is President of the European Commission. Here our she-bear demonstrated how you, my dear unwashed reader, should…
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The Regime’s Compulsion To Scientific Lunacy Explained (Partly)
We met our favorite headline the other day: Climate Change Destroys World, Pregnant People Hardest Hit. A version of that headline rolls off the science press about weekly, now. They…
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Do We Join In The Insanity, Withdraw, Or Fix It?
To what extent do you owe loyalty to a once beloved friend, who in his youth was wise and sober and vigorous, but who has now descended into a kind…
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How I Became A Renegade Scientist
This old picture of myself and a fellow outlaw is given as proof of my deep anti-social propensities. A friend of mine, long ago, would sit and listen to George…