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Bad Numbers, Bad Statistics
I am only about two years behind on my emails. Every email folks send me is worthy of a full post, but obviously I am so far behind I'll never…
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New Paper! A Volatile Discourse
Here's the abstract from the peer-reviewed (so you know everything in it must be true and sworn to by every rational human being now and forever) paper "A volatile discourse…
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Celebrating 4th of July Makes You Republican: Harvard Profs Say So
This post originally ran 1 July 2011. The authors never responded to my offer. Democrats! I beseech thee! Do not let thy children fly the flag on the Glorious Fourth!…
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On That New Genes & Intelligence Paper
Niggling complaint number one. Big name journals are printing more telegraphic papers than ever before, leaving the meat to ill-edited, hard-to-navigate "supplementary" material. It's a way to get in under…
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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…