Those of you living in or around New York City might remember that the American Atheists Association was displeased that two iron girders had formed themselves serendipitously into the shape of the […]
American Atheist Association Modifies Lawsuit Against WTC 9/11 Museum
Heartlandgate Versus Climategate
There are some key differences between Climategate 1.0 and 2.0, where emails from scientists and their hangers on were leaked, and Heartlandgate (am I the first to use this appallingly over-used extension?). […]
Morality Can’t Be Decided By Vote
These are all old arguments, but since Mr Obama has put us in the mood over the birth control controversy, it is best to revisit them. The dominant thinking is that morality […]
Heartland Documents Leaked, Massaged, Faked
First thing I did, after hearing that the Heartland Institute’s budget was leaked, was to pore through it looking for my name in the hopes of seeing how much moola I’d be […]
Why Reconstructed Temperatures Via Proxies Are Misleading
This is an edited and expanded re-post from last September; it makes a natural and needed companion to last week’s series on how to statistically handle temperature time series, particularly Part V. […]
Autism Caused By Highways?
Epidemiology is nothing if not a productive field. All that is needed for success is a database (larger the better), a disease (any will do), and some minor facility with statistical software. […]
Stove On Unintended Consequences
A few quotations, incomplete, on this important subject from Stove’s On Enlightenment. A primitive society is being devastated by a disease, so you bring modern medicine to bear, and wipe out the […]
Mathematical Magic Trick: 8 4-Digit Numbers Summing To 35712?
From reader Noble Abraham comes this question: Is it possible to create a pool of distinct four digit numbers, so that the sum of 8 randomly chosen numbers from this pool is […]
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