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To Put America First Is To Put Our Planet’s Climate First — With Critical Updates

Breitbart: To Put America First Is to Put Our Planet's Climate First. On June 2, 2017, in a Letter regarding US withdrawal from Paris climate agreement addressed to the MIT…

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Ross Douthat’s Preferential Option for Climate Catastrophe

Stream: Ross Douthat's Preferential Option for Climate Catastrophe. This article is in answer to Ross Douthat's, a.k.a. Lt Keefer's, column "Neither Hot Nor Cold on Climate" in which he impugned…

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On That Penis Paper Causes Global Warming Hoax

"The conceptual penis as a social construct" is a peer-reviewed paper by two fellows who used fake names, published in the journal Cogent Social Sciences. The real authors were Peter…

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Brain Damage Increases Religious Fundamentalism—Or Scientific Hubris?

Stream: Brain Damage Increases Religious Fundamentalism---Or Scientific Hubris? You didn't hear it coming. You didn't even feel it. Yet there you were on Hamburger Hill, 12 May 1969, praying you'd…

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Two Common Statistical Fallacies

Here are two fun fallacies, excerpted from a paper I wrote a couple of years ago in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. For more on this sort of…

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Clean Razors For Women Who Cut Themselves? What Happened to First Do No Harm?

Physicians long ago abandoned the Hippocratic Oath, for at least the reason that its call for physicians not to cause harm went against the modern acceptance, and even boasting, of…

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Stream: No, a Study Did Not Show That Same-Sex “Marriage” Laws Reduce Teen Suicide Rates

Folks, a ripe entry for the Fourth Annual WMBriggs.com Bad Science Award (and what about the Third Annual? It's coming, it's coming...). No, a Study Did Not Show That Same-Sex…

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Pope Francis Induces Warm Thoughts Of Global Warming

It's official. Science has donned the leather jacket, slipped on a pair of becoming Bermuda shorts, strapped on a pair of water skies, and soared into the air over the…

John Pate on Class 75: A Gentle Introduction To Time SeriesJanuary 11, 2026
It occurred to me that what we can see on that graph gives us a different interpretation of cause and…
McChuck on Class 75: A Gentle Introduction To Time SeriesJanuary 11, 2026
O/T, but pertinent to our Gracious Host, who might just be one of the best possible candidates: "Speaking of which,…
Hun on On Laws Banning Hacking Women’s Genitals & Imposing BeliefsJanuary 9, 2026
What about male genital mutilation? It's common practice in the US for some reason. Actually, the reason is obvious and…
Don B on Register Your Predictions For 2026!January 9, 2026
1. THIS will be the year the long-awaited, often predicted bear will hit the U.S. stock market, precipitating similar bears…
John Pate on Class 75: A Gentle Introduction To Time SeriesJanuary 8, 2026
The amusing thing is one of the facilitators of China's rise is its falling fertility, giving it the breathing space…