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Infections Drop! Experts Baffled! — Coronavirus Update LII
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Infections Drop! Experts Baffled! — Coronavirus Update LII

EXPERTOLOGY The Daily Mail headline is that "experts" were "baffled" that coronadoom "cases", by which they mean infections, fell by 50%, and that (in another headlines) they were "plummeting". One…
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The Journals’ Sins Are The Editors’ Sins — Guest Post by Robert Yoho
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The Journals’ Sins Are The Editors’ Sins — Guest Post by Robert Yoho

If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re misinformed. Mark Twain Corporate funding has made medical journals wealthy. When I trained 35 years ago,…
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Mask Me, Darling—Why We Know Masks Don’t Work: Coronavirus Update LI
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Mask Me, Darling—Why We Know Masks Don’t Work: Coronavirus Update LI

MASKS The Fabulous Fauci---who likes seeing himself on camera more than Narcissus adored his reflection---was out last week touting triple, or maybe it was quadruple, masks. After all, if one…
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Disproving Kossin’s Increasing Hurricane Intensity Claims: Update — Guest Post by Greg Kent
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Disproving Kossin’s Increasing Hurricane Intensity Claims: Update — Guest Post by Greg Kent

Editor's note I have strong views on statistical "significance", confidence intervals, p-values, and all that, finding them harmful and worse. However, Kossin used these concepts, and a criticism of his…
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Vaccine Side Effects, Inefficiencies & Corporate Greed: Coronavirus Upate XLIX
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Vaccine Side Effects, Inefficiencies & Corporate Greed: Coronavirus Upate XLIX

VACCINE The hope of the vaccines (there are, as you know, many flavors) was that it would calm people down---never mind all the other considerations, which are important but which…
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Visual Proof Our Coronadoom Rulers Are Idiots
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Visual Proof Our Coronadoom Rulers Are Idiots

Restaurants in New York City are forbidden to have guests. That is, guests who wish to sit. Restaurants are allowed to have any number of guests stand in line, cheek…
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How Whiteness Arises From Critical Race Theorists Decrying Measurement White Supremacist
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How Whiteness Arises From Critical Race Theorists Decrying Measurement White Supremacist

The irony of calling the best parts of Western culture "white supremacist" is lost on debased race hustlers. Probably because recognizing the full logical implication of the charge requires just…
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The COVID Vaccine and the False Promises of Science — Guest Post by Robert Yoho
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The COVID Vaccine and the False Promises of Science — Guest Post by Robert Yoho

You have heard that Big Pharma, led by Pfizer, will deliver us from corona virus. There will of course be a vaccine, and it will of course be costly. Proof…
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