Some warm-up exercises, then we review the Bangladeshi paper. But first a reminder: I have no burden, no burden whatsoever, not even in the least degree, to prove mask mandates don’t work. […]
Coronavirus Update XXVIII: fear, Fear, FEAR!
Eeeeeeek! What are you afraid of? From Italy: “The president of the Italian Society of Anti-infection Therapy (SITA) said Thursday that over 90 percent of new cases of coronavirus in Italy are […]
NOAA Hires Climate Realist, Media Strokes Out
Dear Men of the Right, you might complain that you have not got all you wanted from President Trump. But you will not be able to deny he has the unparalleled ability […]
What Are P-Values?
Contributor William Raynor sets us a task: Hi Matt, …I’d still like to see if you can write a column about what an empirical p-value really is without mentioning the word probability. […]
Who Do You Trust More: A Sturgis Biker or An Academic Economist Waving His Wee P-value Around?
The only thing right about that new Sturgis Biker paper everybody is talking about is the opening quotation from somebody calling himself Smash Mouth (asterisks original): “Now we’re all here together tonight. […]
One World Government To End All Pandemics; The Canceling Of John Ioannidis; More! — Coronavirus Update LX
YOU HAVE TO LAUGH Earlier I said 2020 was the year experts pretended to forget all they knew about viruses. I have to correct. I now say 2020 and 2021 are the […]
Realist Catholic Climate Declaration Is Live
Access it directly at this link. Or read it here! The Declaration The Magisterium of the Catholic Church makes no mention of earth’s optimal climate, or the best rate of change of […]
Poor Heat
From our very own Ye Olde Statistician comes the tip, “As Rising Heat Bakes U.S. Cities, The Poor Often Feel It Most“, a run-of-the-mill NPR weepie, but with a global warming twist. […]
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