I was asked this question the other day: “Is science becoming stupider?” I was forced to answer this way: “Boy, howdy! Science will be lucky to reach stupid the end of the […]
Lancet Says 1 in 6 Worldwide Deaths by Pollution: 67% More Than Coronadoom
You’ve seen the headline, “World Ends: Favored Victims Hardest Hit,” and you’ve laughed. The Noble Victims differ, slightly, by country. There is no class of being nobler or respected or reverenced than […]
Global Warming To Create Cold Which Will Cause Mass Extinctions: Experts’ Model
Reporter Leslie Stahl once had herself filmed walking by a power plant’s smokestack. She said, “There could be anything coming out of there.” Unless “we” acted. She asked her ardent followers to […]
The Less You Know About Climate, The More You Cry About Climate
Some things, the saying goes, are too good to check. Take the peer-reviewed paper “Environmental knowledge is inversely associated with climate change anxiety” by Hannes Zacher and Cort W. Rudolph in Climatic […]
Why Bayes Is Not The Fix We Need: A Critique of Bayesian Inference and its Application
I’ve pointed out many times some of the weaknesses of traditional statistical practices, and how the routine use of “hypothesis testing” leads to an ever-growing mountain of Broken Science. Some say the […]
Scientists Use The Double-Dog Epidemiologist Fallacy To Claim Breathing Induces Antibiotic Resistance
Thanks to AS! I don’t have your email, so I hope you see this. The epidemiologist fallacy occurs when a scientist announces, directly or implicitly, that X Causes Y, but where X […]
What The Sports Illustrated Curse Says About The Reproducibility Crisis
The so-called Sports Illustrated curse is easy to understand. A player or team excels, which is to say it does much better than they usually do, the exceptional performance attracts the attention […]
An Instance Of How “The Science” Is Produced: Gender Equality Edition
This post is, as they say, in the weeds. But it’s necessary for those who want to know how The Science is produced. I saw a tweet, the veracity of which I […]
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