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On Who Regulates Medicine
From Louis Jolyon West, "The Medical World of Dr Stephen Maturin", in Patrick O'Brian: Critical Essays and a Bibliography, 1994, edited by A.E. Cunningham, WW Norton, New York, First American…
Posted inStatistics
Update On The On-line Probability & Statistics Course. Comments Wanted
It's been a while, but I think I've finally figured out how to make an on-line class work. Details about this will be forthcoming, but for now I wanted to…
Posted inStatistics
Women With Large Posteriors Live Longer? Or Is Medical Reporting Nonsense?
When reader Bruce Foutch sent me the article "Ghanaian women with big buttocks will live longer---Research", I first thought, "Here's a story a Bayesian can really sink his teeth into"…
Books Most People Lie About Reading
The Federalist has a list of eleven books, which it calls ten, they say most people lie about reading. Here's the list. Atlas Shrugged Never read, never plan on reading.…
Posted inStatistics
Daily Links & Comments
@1 The Loss of the Permanent Things in Higher Education: trivial, multicultural, relativistic, sexual and politically correct studies supplant what had been a focus on Western civilization. Link @2 November…
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Daily Links & Comments
@1 False widow spiders on the march! Under orders from global warming. Link @2 Washington Post's astonishing database of non-profit shenanigans. The big secret is millions go missing from NGOs:…
Posted inPhilosophy
Are We Hard-Wired for Faith? Guest Post by Bob Kurland
Bob Kurland is a "retired, cranky, old physicist." This article originally ran in modified form at Reflections of a Catholic Scientist. "Prayer is the raising of one's mind and heart…
We Do Not Discriminate On The Basis Of…Contest! Winner Declared!
Yours Truly is always on the lookout for teaching jobs, since that is his passion and where his skills lie, and so is well familiar with the application process at…
