We have had a lot of seriousness over the last year. Covid Madness, possibly wonky elections, riots of the Left and riots of the Right, petty criminals become heroes and heroes are […]

FABULOUS FAUCI FALTERS This is one on many threads concerning The Fauci Emails, which sounds like a tacky late-80s cold-war thriller. March 17, 2020. Tony Fauci gives instructions for who to work […]

The media has been reporting that 37% “of warm-season heat-related deaths can be attributed to anthropogenic climate change”. They gleaned this from the peer-reviewed paper, “The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to […]

This is from Gerd Gigerenzer’s “Mindless statistics” in The Journal of Socio-Economics, 33, (2004) 587–606. Have a go before looking at the answers (I’m giving my own, not quoting Gigerenzer). Send this […]

WE CONTINUE The consensus—and we never buck consensii; consensuses?—was to keep these updates going for the time being, but expanding their scope. I have therefore cut back on some of the old […]

Maybe you have a story like this. A barber I know was shut down by one of the lockdowns various state governments experimented with during the coronadoom panic, in a vain attempt […]

NOTHING MORTAL GOES FOREVER Should we quit these updates? I know I’ve grown sick of them. Are you? Maybe replace them with articles when warranted, such as what our dear rulers attempt […]