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Academics Blame Lower Trust In Scientists On Everything But Bad Scientists

The second sentence of the abstract of a new paper about trust in scientists, which is generally high but in some places low, provides the very reason for distrust: "Public…

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More On How Peer Review Generates And Maintains Consensuses

We spoke the other day of the enervating effects of peer review. Today we examine a peer-reviewed paper whose very purpose is to show that peer review exists and is…

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The Burden Of Proof On Climate Scientists—And Those Wishing For Its “Solutions”

UNCERTAINTY REQUIREMENTS If you say a calamity will befall me, and ask me to pay to protect against it, the burden is on you to (a) prove the calamity is…

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Resist Corona Tyranny!

World War II buffs will recall the story where General Patton, about the launch a counter-offensive in the Battle of the Bulge, was called into Eisenhower's office. With Ike was…

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Coronavirus Update X: Juicing The Numbers, Prolonging The Pain

All the good stuff, caveats, code, data sources and explanations are linked, some in Update III, and the most important in Update II, Update IV, Update V, Update VI, Update…

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Naomi Oreskes Plays Dumb On Statistics And Climate Change

This post is one that has been restored after the hacking. All original comments were lost. Remember how I said, again and again---and again---that everybody gets statistics wrong? Here's proof…

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What I Have Learned From Global Warming: Contest Winner Essays 2. Plus Secret Bonus!

Another essay from the winners of the Rename Global Warming Contest is here! Plus, a special bonus, a treat for all readers! See below! Don't miss it! John Buckner, "Climactic…

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Prosecute Global Warming Heretics. Update 2: Kill, Nuremberg Them, Too!

Prosecute the heretics! is the new cry from the high priests of global warming. Climate "deniers", they say, are no better than mobsters, good fellas who are extorting the climate,…

Chaeremon on Bipartisan Means The Fix Is InApril 23, 2024
when you see the irreparable cracks in some building, you can only save what is obviously usable. P.S. same Uniparty-behavior…
JerryR on Class 3: Uncertainty & Probability Theory: The Logic of Science: Belief & FaithApril 23, 2024
No comments? Well Briggs has presented gobbledygook so I can understand. I have never seen a serious discussion of JTB…
Hagfish Bagpipe on Why I Don’t Want To Be Made To Support IsraelApril 23, 2024
Briggs, you got several of your more annoying posters to leave in a huff with this one. Well done, thanks.…
Hagfish Bagpipe on Bipartisan Means The Fix Is InApril 23, 2024
If people weren't so damned hungry for sin this wouldn't happen. You can't cheat an honest man. But the people…
Gwyneth on Bipartisan Means The Fix Is InApril 23, 2024
"The devil is just one man with a plan, but evil, true evil, is a collaboration of men." Agent Mulder…