Posted inCulture
More On How Peer Review Generates And Maintains Consensuses
We spoke the other day of the enervating effects of peer review. Today we examine a peer-reviewed paper whose very purpose is to show that peer review exists and is…
Posted inStatistics
Warming in Terms of Human and Natural Factors
Today's title is adapted from the peer-reviewed paper "The Detection and Attribution of Northern Hemisphere Land Surface Warming (1850–2018) in Terms of Human and Natural Factors: Challenges of Inadequate Data",…
Posted inStatistics
Bayesian Yacht Sinks; Connected Man Run Over By Car: A Working Coincidence
So a 184-foot yacht named Bayesian sank while anchored in a freak windstorm off Sicily. Its billionaire owner now sleeps with the fishes. The name of the boat naturally brings…
Posted inCulture Philosophy
Somebody Might Get Hurt!
For the closing days of summer, I am posting every chapter of the first edition of Everything You Believe Is Wrong. My enemies ravaged the first edition, inserting typos galore…
Posted inCulture Statistics
Great News! The Climate Is Much Better Than Predicted. Now We Can Calm Down!
I am, and you will be, too, absolutely delighted by a new paper by Roy Spencer: "Global Warming: Observations vs. Climate Models". This is a paper that will be celebrated…
Posted inPodcast
On Experts, The Dutch Nitrogen “Crisis”, Coronadoom & More! — Podcast
Trish Wood had me on her TNT Radio program on Saturday afternoon. We spoke of the Dutch nitrogen "crisis", global warming (now called "climate change"), the coronadoom, Experts and our…
Posted inStatistics
How Academic Psychology Affects Brains Of Academic Psychologists Studying How Climate Change Affects Brains
Yesterday I made the claim that academic psychology contained vastly more "banality, ephemera, and outright enforced mandatory quackery than real psychology." This was proved by a paper written by a…
Posted inStatistics
How To Generate Scientific Over-Certainty
It's easy to sound more certain than the evidence warrants, especially when using classical parameter-based statistical methods. I'll show you how. I'll give you the procedure first, then work through…
