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Video: The Crisis Of Evidence, Or, Why Probability & Statistics Cannot Discover Cause

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbf_TXqEY-Y Thanks to Jeremy Snavely at DDP for putting up the talks. Here's a direct link. Here's the paper. Q & A starts around 52:30 minutes. Since some readers were…

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Stream: What’s True and What’s False in Obama’s Latest Global Warming Claims

Today's post is at The Stream: What's True and What's False in Obama's Latest Global Warming Claims. There is so much hyperbolic language surrounding the topic of global warming that…

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Keeping It Simple: The Value Of An Irreducibly Simple Climate Model. New Paper

The rebuttal to the criticism of our original peer-reviewed climate model paper "Why models run hot" has been published in Science Bulletin. It is also peer-reviewed, and therefore it must…

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Which Statistics Grad School If You’re Sick Of Hocus-Pocus P-values?

I received this query from a reader and thought it important enough for all of us to answer. I was hoping you could provide some advice for an aspiring statistician.…

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Probability & Statistics Cannot Prove Cause

Correlation I was at the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness conference in Ontario (LA) California and gave my paper The Crisis Of Evidence: Why Probability And Statistics Cannot Discover Cause, which…

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Writer Says Discovery Of Extraterrestrial Life Would Be Bad News For God. God Says Nope

The danger of writing about that in which you are ignorant is that you're bound to look foolish. Let's see an example. Jeff Schweitzer, who bills himself as a scientist…

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The Crisis Of Evidence: Why Probability And Statistics Cannot Discover Cause. New Paper

Cancer of the albondigas is horrifyingly under-diagnosed. See your doctor today and ask him if Profitizol is right for you. Today's post, in a way, is at Arxiv: The Crisis…

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Stream: Vatican Environmental Conference: A Marriage of Bad Governors and Bad Science

Today's post is at the Stream: Vatican Environmental Conference: A Marriage of Bad Governors and Bad Science. The excerpt here keeps my caveman joke which was lost somewhere downstream. Jerry…

Johnno on “Climate Change” Is Making People Live Longer!March 8, 2025
I wonder if climate change bothers some people so much it actually shortens their lifespans. Someone should fund that study.…
Government Funding Corrupts Science, How to Stop It – Climate- Science.press on The Case For Ending Government Funding of ScienceMarch 8, 2025
[…] Briggs explains in his blog article The Case For Ending Government Funding of Science. Excerpts in italics with my bolds…
C-Marie on Against The Anthropic PrincipleMarch 7, 2025
Well done, hudbwu!! Thank you! God bless, C-Marie
hudbwu on Against The Anthropic PrincipleMarch 7, 2025
> Because the world didn’t have to be this way, we didn’t have to be here. Therefore there is nothing…
Cary Cotterman on “Climate Change” Is Making People Live Longer!March 6, 2025
I live near Loma Linda, California, where temperatures are normally 90 degrees F. or higher at least six months per…