Forgive me my friends, because of reasons I am terribly far behind on everything. Regular posting to resume soon. While back in a post, I was ranting about something like p-values, or […]
Coal Dust Is Claimed To Kill Old People: A New Instance of the Epidemiologist Fallacy
There are a lot of new readers, and many may not yet have heard of the epidemiologist fallacy. Few tools have been as productive at generating The Science. You know The Science. […]
All—As In All—Of The “Climate Change Made This Event More Likely” Claims Are False
Here’s a typical recent propaganda headline: “Climate change made Libya flooding 50 times more likely: Report.” This is not so. Here’s another recent one from PBS: “Climate change made global summer droughts […]
How Can A Man Who Loses A Race Be Called The Winner & What Does This Have To Do With Science?
In which we start simple, stay simple, come to Plateau Easy, and the readers begins to wonder why he bothers, which he discovers at the end to his puzzlement. Get In Line […]
The Regime’s New De Facto “AI” Law And The End Of Pattern Recognition
News is that Regime put out a new law, bypassing Congress as usual, in the form of an “executive order”, about “AI”. The new law’s title is “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial […]
Is AI Really Able To Probe Your Brain & See The Image You’re Thinking Of?
There’s a rumor going around that computers can now read your thoughts. That “AI” can pick off images you’re thinking about. Here’s one of many similar breathless headlines: “The AI that can […]
The Only Argument Against P-Values You Will Ever Need
Some two and a half years ago I posted this article: “An Infinity of Null Hypotheses — Another Anti-P-Value Argument“. The title is unfortunate; or, rather, the subtitle is. It should have […]
Why Simple Models Are Better Than Complex In Finance, Climate, Coronadoom & More
Right after yesterday’s post on (again) why rationalism and reason fail as philosophies, and on their severe limitations, I read an article profiling Gerd Gigerenzer and his “simple rules”. It repeats a […]
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