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Guilty People Aren’t Guilty, Innocent People Are
The man who took the knife and slit the throat of the woman whose money and body he wanted could not help himself. But the judge who sentenced that man…
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Climate Science And Significance: Wall Street Journal Takes On Statistics
Coin Flips and Dice Rolls Doug Keenan has a must-read piece in the Wall Street Journal on the time series analysis of global temperature (Thanks to Randy, Roger, and John…
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California Air Resources Board Uses Strange Statistics, UCLA Fires Scientist
The story (related in full at HotAir.org) is long and tangled, but the short version is this. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) wanted to regulate diesel truck fumes, inherently…
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I Am The Cause Of All Discrimination In The United States Of America
Today's post is at Pajama's Media, "The Cause of All Discrimination? Me: One man makes a shocking confession." Logically, if there is discrimination, there must be discriminators and discriminatees. Who,…
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Education: A Vaccine Against Ignorance? Or, There Are Too Many People!
"Currently, one could argue that the most significant form of global pollution is human population growth." So says Mr Jack Trevors, Editor-in-Chief of Water, Air, & Soil Pollution (WASP), "an…
Put Down That Salt!
This is an appropriate day to repost a classic article, especially given this story in the Daily Mail with the headline "The town that's banned salt." And don't forget our…
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University Professors Teach Too Much: Part IV
Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV. I know there wasn't supposed to be a Part IV, but at the risk of boring you, and since this is…
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University Professors Teach Too Much: Part III
Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV. Colleges themselves---which, I remind us, are to be separated from research institutes---should be broken in two: traditional college and technical or…
