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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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Last Call For Alcohol-Cancer Papers
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Last Call For Alcohol-Cancer Papers

Time (sigh) for yet another example of the scrofulous, not to say ubiquitous, Epidemiologist Fallacy. This is peer-reviewed-paper generating technique of declaring X CAUSES Y, but where X is never…
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Class 70: Most Claims Of “Controlled For” Are Wrong: The Right Way
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Class 70: Most Claims Of “Controlled For” Are Wrong: The Right Way

Claims of control are almost always false or misleading. "Controlling for" sex or age or anything in probability models is not true control. It's just adding things to models. Vast…
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The Superpower You Didn’t Know You Had
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The Superpower You Didn’t Know You Had

Once again, for the statistically accurate umpteenth time, I saw some of our guys lamenting, cursing, hand-wringing, shouting and delivering various clever imprecations over yet another Hollywood abomination. This time…
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Class 68: The Philosophy Of Models (Regression): The WRONG Way
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Class 68: The Philosophy Of Models (Regression): The WRONG Way

Be sure to review the RIGHT way from last week. Today, of the infinite number of ways to go sour, we look at one common way modeling goes awry. Video…
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The Lancet’s New Push To Ban Meat
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The Lancet’s New Push To Ban Meat

Science is not the answer. It cannot be "because Science" that you ought to give up meat. Which Harvard scientists want you to do in the name of "justice". And,…
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‘Termination Shock’: Newest Entry In Science Doom Naming Contest
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‘Termination Shock’: Newest Entry In Science Doom Naming Contest

What's need in Science is a hot topic. A band wagon on which one can jump with gusto, grabbing its great Grips of Grants, guides which ensure success and promotion.…
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Changing Clocks In Fall Will Stroke You Out, Fatty: Research
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Changing Clocks In Fall Will Stroke You Out, Fatty: Research

(My enemies changed the title. I have changed it back. They will pay for this insolence.) Daylight savings time is something that angers many performatively, more than in truth. If…
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