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Are Scientific Papers Becoming Worse?
The United States Football League began in 1983 with twelve cities, many of which already had an NFL team. The level of play was decidedly inferior to the "senior" league…
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Letter From Student At Behemoth University
Regular readers will remember my "Conversations with myself" series that I began last fall, as sort of a teaching diary while I was a visiting professor at Behemoth University. The…
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Your Belief In God Is Causing Your Denial Of AGW
Update Simon Donner has a blog post on this paper, which links back here. Since all comments are closed after 8 days (to battle spam), I'm moving this post to…
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Al Gore Says Climate Skeptics Are Racist
The Algore, a creature created from worn parts of defunct Tennessee Politicians---the vile experiment funded by Big Tobacco---a creature made wealthy by his wailing, awash in the money of Big…
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Spencer’s Paper Reviewed; Remote Sensing Editor Wolfgang Wagner Resigns
Politics In one of the most asinine, self-promoting, sniveling, absurd, nakedly political moves Wolfgang Wagner has resigned, with trumpets blazing, his editorship of Remote Sensing. Why? Because the journal under…
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America’s Security and Taiwan’s Freedom — Guest Post by June Teufel Dreyer
We return to a topic which is of more importance than you want it to be: the possibility of Chinese belligerence. June Teufel Dreyer is a political science professor at…
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British Judge Rules Against Bayes’s Theorem
A British judge has thrown a use of Bayes's rule out of his court. Not only that, his honor (Lordship?) ruled "against using similar statistical analysis in the courts in…
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D.J. Keenan’s And My BEST Methodology Reviews
Doug Keenan was asked by The Economist to have a gander at the statistics developed by the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project. He did so. We must resist extensive…
