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P-values vs. Bayes Is A False Dichotomy
There still exist defenders of p-values. The largest class, the superstitious, are those who remember nothing about p-values except that they must be wee. Let us in haste pass by…
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Chapter 1 Excerpt from Uncertainty: The Soul of Probability, Modeling & Statistics
Buy the book! Necessary & Conditional Truth Given "x,y,z are natural numbers and x>y and y>z" the proposition "x>z" is true (I am assuming logical knowledge here, which I don't…
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Despite What You Heard, The Death Penalty Is Legitimate. Feser and Bessette’s “By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment”
Because, very oddly, there has been a changing of the catechism from the constant and ancient teaching ("the pope is distracting the world with fresh meat for the spirit of…
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Insanity & Doom Update XV
Item Keep under-25s out of adult prisons, MPs urge Young offenders up to the age of 25 should be kept out of adult prisons because of "irrefutable evidence" that the…
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GOP Baseball Shooting Open Thread
Golly, we seem to be doing a lot of this we-interrupt-this broadcast type of posts lately. Perhaps that 'climate of violence' business we've been hearing from the media is real…
Posted inCulture Philosophy
The Imposing-Their-Beliefs Fallacy
I'm on the road for the next several days and won't always have access to the Internet. So I'm reposting a series of classic fallacies. Regular service to resume early…
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Answering Ben Santer’s Trickle-Down Ignorance on Climate — Santer Responds Update!
Stream: Answering Ben Santer's Trickle-Down Ignorance on Climate Climatologist Ben Santer says living in the "darkness of the Trump administration's scientific ignorance" is like the time he nearly killed himself…
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The Final Fall of the Church of England
This is a collection of articles indicative of what is predicted to be the final fall of the Church of England. Think of it as an Insanity & Doom update…
