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New York Times Is Looking For A Climate Change Editor. That’s Me!

Dean Baquet and Sam Dolnick New York Times New York, NY Re: Climate Change Editor Dear Misters Baquet and Dolnick, Please accept my application for the position of Climate Change…
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Bad Science Used to Block Americans’ Access to Life-Saving Technology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbf_TXqEY-Y Our friend Jane Orient, lead doc at Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, put out the release below, in which she very kindly mentions Yours Truly. The AAPS runs…
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Stream: Did Ohio’s New Abortion Law Cause An Increase In Adverse Events?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwn0QBhy2TQ Today's post is at The Stream: Did Ohio's New Abortion Law Cause An Increase In Adverse Events? ...The drugs mifepristone and misoprostol are sometimes injected into pregnant women to…
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Just What Is Signal And What Is Noise?

There are two senses of Signal and Noise (SN). The first is obvious: a signal, some known phenomenon, is corrupted by outside forces, where these caused corruptions are the noise.…
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Gonorrhea, Wee P-values, and Tax Increases

Adventurous reader Ted Poppke discovered a peer-reviewed paper that, according to the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), proved that increasing sales tax on booze "caused a 24% decrease in gonorrhea cases…
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On The Severe (And Unrecognized) Limitations Of fMRI

So this 44-year-old Frenchman---let's call him Jacques---presented for a "mild left leg weakness". The leg bone being connected to the hip bone, etc., it was eventually discovered that Jacques's "skull…
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Uncertainty Reviewed In The New Criterion

"William Briggs, the civilized world's most amusing statistician." Roger Kimball, author of The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia, The Rape of the Masters: How…
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Falsifiability Is Not That Useful

False is not True We spoke earlier of falsification and why I didn't think it was an especially useful criterion. My tweets about it inspired Deborah Mayo, who advocates for…
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