On Thursday 14 August, the Wall Street Journal had two excellent articles, which expertly described the statistics and uncertainty of their topics. Several readers have wrote in asking for an analysis of […]

A number of mixed items today, mostly with the theme that Experts are often too sure of themselves. The organization GRASP, among many others, until yesterday warned of the “imminent extinction faced […]

Says Paul Krugman, a writer for a local New York paper, The only way we’re going to get action, I’d suggest, is if those who stand in the way of action come […]

You’ll have heard the speech by now. Barack Obama yesterday addressed a large crowd and said that McCain was Going to try and make you scared of me. [polite applause] You know, […]

UPDATE: All seems well again. Thanks to everybody for their help! I have been having a hell of a time trying to upgrade. Everything now seems OK, except that I can’t see […]

Today’s headlines mostly got it wrong: The New York Sun said “Study Shatters Myth That Boys Are Better At Math.” The New York Post said “Girls = boys in math skills.” The […]

If you doubt any claim made about man-made global warming, Jennifer Jacquet thinks you are a “miscreant” and on par with those who deny that “smoking causes cancer.” She also draws the […]

The headline comes from this article at NASA, sent in by reader “Mike D.” The gist of the article is “that there’s nothing to report.” Says David Hathaway: “There have been some […]