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Health Care And The Candy Store Called Socialism
Jim Fedako ( who wrote this piece; send him email) is a business analyst and homeschooling father of seven who lives in Lewis Center, OH. Some 27 years ago, I…
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Well? What Do You Think? Or, New & Improved!
You may say absolutely anything you like, except that you don't like it. Well, you may say it, but I have my palms over my eyeballs so I won't see…
Posted inPhilosophy
Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Scientism
The other day on Twitter, I saw somebody quote approvingly these words by Neil deGrasse Tyson: The good thing about Science is that it's true whether or not you believe…
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Ask A Scientific Ethicist: Estranged Mother, Thieving Boss, & More
Dear Scientific Ethicist, My wife has been estranged from her mother for over a decade. The split was caused when her mother disagreed with her choice of husband. Namely, me.…
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Time Series And Causality: Global Warming Example
Temperature causes Here is an atmospheric monthly average temperature series: T = (61, 69, 69, 70, 72, 65, 63) (all F). What caused the temperature to take the value T1…
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Decadence Data: Or, A Doomed Demos Dances
All of these indicators of our quickening hoot-hollering yeah-baby! slide into the muck made the news on the same day. We dare not cast our net wider for fear of…
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Time Series Aren’t Easy: Tornado Deaths Example
Time series are the most abused statistics in the physical sciences. (It's an endless, raucous, peer-reviewed contest for the worst in the "soft sciences.") The Mann problem (is that a…
