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Pope’s Encyclical Leaked: Relevant Climate Portion
I've been asked to do pieces on this in other places, which I'm on, but I'm also teaching from 9 to 5 today, so for us all I can do…
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Heartland Climate Conference: Day 1. Everybody Gets Time Series Wrong
As predicted, there were cigars. But I missed them. The smoking party left without me while I listed to Ireland's version of the Mr Wizard brothers. A science experiment involving…
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Lancet Editor: Half Of Science Is Wrong. An Underestimate?
Half of science may be wrong? That may be an underestimate. But at least Richard Horton, the editor in chief of The Lancet, is in the right ballpark. Ballpark? That…
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The Week In Doom: Nervous Sheep & Intolerant Irish
https://twitter.com/LADFLEG/status/602012010470080512 Return of the snakes As of this writing, Ireland has voted 60%-ish to allow two men or two women---and only two at this point; arbitrary discrimination, no?---to pretend to…
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Hypothesis Testing Relies On The Fallacy Of False Dichotomy
Classical hypothesis testing is founded on the fallacy of the false dichotomy. The false dichotomy says of two hypotheses that if one hypothesis is false, the other must be true.…
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Sustaining Envy—Guest Post by Jim Fedako
According to Helmut Schoek (Envy: A Theory of Social Behaviour), envy is a driving force behind the way societies are structured. And when a society succumbs to the collective force…
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Bad Science Of The Year Nominee: Global Warming To Cause Bad Music
Strike the title. It's probably wrong. But, if so, it was an understandable mistake. After all, it was based on the news article "Music: Will climate change give us the…
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