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Firearm Homicides Dropping: All The Latest Stats
I rarely ask this, but please link, forward, email, and favorite this post as widely as possible. See below for copying permission. A version of this post originally ran 16…
Posted inCulture Fun Statistics
Second Annual WMBriggs.com Bad Science Award!
Announcement In the proud and rarely abused tradition of Honoring Important People, we present the Second Annual WMBriggs.com Bad Science Award! Please help us pass on the news of this…
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The Real Anti-Science Crowd
People are starting to notice that not all is well in Science. This is happening not only among scientists themselves, not only among Realists like the readers of this blog,…
Posted inFun Statistics
Predictions For 2016—Register Yours Today!
It's that time of year again. Time to put your reputation on the line and show us your pudding, if that is the metaphor I want. Even if it isn't,…
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How’d We Do On Our 2015 Predictions?
The answer to the post title's question is: I'm not so sure. Because why? Because the predictions everybody registered were lost when I was hacked last January. Why was I…
Posted inPhilosophy Statistics
Gettier Problems & Epistemic Luck Are Distractions And No Problem
Regular readers will recall I do not think so-called Gettier problems have any force in epistemology. The "problems" only crop up because people make two mistakes: forgetting the difference between…
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Theories Don’t Have Probabilities: Or, Is The Multiverse Real?
There was in Munich last week a three-day workshop on the soul of science. According to Quanta Magazine, the conference was driven by George Ellis and Joe Silk who wrote…
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Comment On “Origin of probabilities and their application to the multiverse”
Today, since I'm very busy, a small-ish review---mere comments, really---of "Origin of probabilities and their application to the multiverse" by Andreas Albrecht and Daniel Phillips. I got this paper via…