Big news is that both lefty and righty Catholic news sources banded together last week to issue an editorial “Capital Punishment Must End“. The subject is enormous; there is no hope of […]
Bad Arguments Against The Death Penalty: Update
The Biggest Error In Regression
I know, I know: we’re sick to death of regression, but we have to cover the biggest error, which is how the Deadly Sin of Reification happens. You have a “y”, an […]
Do You Believe In Global Warming Because Of The Seriousness Of The Charges?
An activist tells you, “Based on my theory of rampant, out-of-control global warming, otters, driven mad by the heat, will take to the streets and destroy mankind, just like apes do in […]
Philosophic Issues in Cosmology VII: Is there a Multiverse?–Guest Post by Bob Kurland
Bob Kurland is a retired, cranky, old physicist, and convert to Catholicism. He shows that there is no contradiction between what science tells us about the world and our Catholic faith. Read […]
The Deadly Sin Of Reification! Day Three
Zeno Phobia Counting day. How many ways can you skin a cat if the number of sharp versus dull knives is this and such. Simple stuff, easy to get the hang off. […]
What Statistics Really Is: Part I
It’s so simple that you’ll think I’m kidding. Worse, the way I’ll show it is such a radical departure from the manner in which you’re used to thinking about probability and statistics […]
What Regression Really Is: Part III
Read Part II Which x’s to pick? Unfortunately, there is an infinite universe from which to draw—and here we come closer to resembles. It could be, for instance, a person’s shoe color […]
What Scientific Idea Is Ready For Retirement? Hypothesis Tests
Edge asked a whopping number of named persons which ideas are ready to be expunged from the thing that is Science. Somehow my invitation got lost in the aether, an oversight which […]
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