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The United States of Diabetes?
More fun can be had with epidemiology than with any other branch of investigation. It's the only science whose practitioners regularly jump out from behind the bushes yelling Boo! And…
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Cornell’s Cancun Climate Conference Crew
"A delegation of Cornell researchers will join the fight against climate change Monday in the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico." So begins an article in the…
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Certified Hot!
No, not me, likely as that would be, but the slot machines at the Soaring Eagle Casinos. Thanks to the---can we call it anything else?---hot tip from long-time reader BillB,…
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The Great Global Warming Blunder by Roy W. Spencer
The Great Global Warming Blunder: How Mother Nature Fooled the World's Top Climate Scientists by Roy W. Spencer This book was given to me for review by the publisher. Clouds…
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Kids Who Play Video Games Take Longer To Fall Asleep Than Those Who Sit Quietly
This is a follow-up to the post Shocking Research: Kids Who Play Games, Watch TV, Text Don’t Read And Do Poorly At School. The original New York Times article quoted…
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Tolkien Wants A King, Cheating With Statistics
Cheating With Statistics Reader Matt Lewis points us to Planet Moron, to an article which tears apart a statistical argument used by the Washington Post, an argument which sought to…
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Peer Review Fails? Sympathetic Priest? What’s Going On Here?
Duke Scores Another Own Goal According to Science, Duke University oncologist Anil Potti quit after being caught cheating: Anil Potti had published papers in prominent journals identifying gene signatures in…
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The Government Loves You And Wants You To Stop Smoking
As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking…