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How To Present Anything As Significant. Update: Nature Weighs In
Update The paper on which this post was based has hit the presses which was used as an occasion for Nature to opine that, just maybe, that some of the…
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Holocaust Survivor Compares Climate Skeptics To Hitler Deniers
Micha Tomkiewicz is a physicist who tells us he was a child in the Warsaw Ghetto and Bergen-Belsen during World War II when the Nazis (and Soviets) were gleefully murdering…
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Dutch Doctors’ Strange New House Calls
Dr Overlijden of Levenseindekliniek A new contest is in order, if it doesn't already exist. Each year we should recognize and award the person or group who invents the best…
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The Probability Of Nonsense In Science: Complexity & Verification
This is a work in progress, and today is a busy day. This is just for fun and for you to play with. The more complex the field of study,…
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Sleeping Beauty Probability Problem
Update This has been moved up from its original 29 Feb 2012 date on 23 March 2012 to allow additional comments. Update This has been moved up from its original…
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The Implications Of Moral Insignificance
In her piece "In Praise of Insignificance" in Scientific American, Jennifer Ouellette says, If one embraces an atheist worldview, it necessarily requires embracing, even celebrating, one's insignificance. It's a tall…
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Another Academic Says Climate Skeptics Criminals Against Humanity And Other Name Calling
In a talk at some "sustainability" something-or-other seminar---one this is sure: we're not going to soon run out of climate conclaves---academic Donald Brown told his audience (25 min. mark) that…
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All Forecasts, Predictions, & Prophecies Are Contingent
Yesterday I made the point that Jim Hansen's latest threat of doom was a conditional one. I also said that there was nothing wrong with this. And there isn't. Nothing…