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Heartland Climate Conference Summary
This is an editorial that I sent out to various places. I am one of the scientists that attended the recent Heartland Climate Conference in Manhattan, where I live. It…
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What’s Wrong with the Sun? (Nothing)
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…
Posted inPhilosophy
Science is decided by committee
Scientists still do not appear to understand sufficiently that all earth sciences must contribute evidence toward unveiling the state of our planet in earlier times, and that the truth of…
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We made Joker!
UPDATE: apologies to those who tried to comment from 1 am to 5 am EST Wednesday. My hosting service was doing maintenance and comments were locked out. All is well…
Posted inBook review Philosophy Statistics
What appeal to authority means and what it doesn’t
This article is meant to be the first is a small series of demonstrations of how not and how to argue for or against climate activism. The level of argumentation…
Posted inPhilosophy
Peer review
Here is how peer review roughly works. An author sends a paper to a journal. An editor nearly always sends the paper on to two or more referees. The referees…
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Substack Mirror wmbriggs.substack.com Résumé I am a wholly independent writer, statistician, scientist and consultant. Previously a Professor at the Cornell Medical School, a Statistician at DoubleClick in its infancy, a…
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When zombies were scary
Ronald Reagan said that the ten scariest words in the English language are "Hello, I'm from the government and I'm here to help." In terms of sheer mayhem and spirited…
