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 his command […]
Global Warming Increases Disastrous Music: A Scientific Paper
A scientific paper in a grand tradition (notice the scientific formatting and use of p-values): the custom is to read only the Abstract; only the brave and bored should venture further. ABSTRACT […]
BEST’s Worst Work; What Is Significant?
You will have already seen this comparison graph from the Daily Mail. That paper points out correctly that the version of the plot provided by BEST is presented in such a fashion […]
Reading Spencer’s Radiation Paper; Polar Bears Flap: Scientist Under Investigation
Thanks to all the readers who have altered me to Roy Spencer and William Braswell’s new paper, “On the Misdiagnosis of Surface Temperature Feedbacks from Variations in Earth’s Radiant Energy Balance,” published […]
Detecting Deceptive Opinion Spam
Ever seen a review like this? My husband and I satayed for two nights at the Hilton Chicago,and enjoyed every minute of it! The bedrooms are immaculate,and the linnens are very soft. […]
Model Selection and the Difficulty of Falsifying Probability Models: Part II
I hope all understand that we are not just discussing statistics and probability models: what is true here is true for all theories/models (mathematics, physics, chemistry, climate, etc.). Read Part I. Suppose […]
Food Deserts: Millions Of Californians Starving Themselves Into Obesity
The blubber is flowing in California. So says that State’s venerable University, Los Angeles division. It’s an epidemic! Both excessive fatness “increased significantly in just six years”. This isn’t the worse of […]
Does Second To Fourth Digit Ratio Predict You-Know-What Length?
From the storied Halls of Science comes an important new study, here abstracted from the Asian Journal of Andrology1. I apologize for the length of this excerpt, but it is necessary you […]
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