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Some Common Global Warming Fallacies
The level of debate on global warming is shriekingly poor. Not that I have any hope of convincing the world to reject bad logic, but here are some of the…
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The Horrible Dangers Of Third-Hand Smoke
All countries have been known to periodically lose their minds. France in 1789 banned religion by the point of a blade, Russia in 1917 banned freedom by the barrel of…
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Statistical Significance Does Not Mean What You Think. Climate Temperature Trends. Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 7
There are a subset of professional statisticians---defined as folks who have had formal training in the field given to them by other professionals---who feel that the field of statistics is…
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Belief In God “Rooted” In Human Nature Say Academics
New research has shown---and by "research" I mean a fact long known to citizens is revealed to academics who attach a p-value to it and publish it---"that suggests that religion…
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There’s More Than One Way To Skin A Dead Companion Animal
There are enough details in the New York Observer report that we can piece together what happened. The scene: the monthly meeting of the New York Skeptics at a Kips…
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Overstretching Climate Change Attribution
Says Camille Parmesan and others, "The biological world is responding rapidly to a changing climate, but attempts to attribute individual impacts to rising greenhouse gases are ill-advised" (from the first…
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Education: A Vaccine Against Ignorance? Or, There Are Too Many People!
"Currently, one could argue that the most significant form of global pollution is human population growth." So says Mr Jack Trevors, Editor-in-Chief of Water, Air, & Soil Pollution (WASP), "an…
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Earthquake Ghouls, Colleges As High Schools, The Robinson DeFazio Controversy, More
J-school Ghouls On the radio, a female American reporter in Tokyo, unnecessarily breathless and somewhat disappointed. "I can only imagine if it were here, it would have been much worse…