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How The 95% IPCC Certainty Falls To The Ground
Busy times at the Briggs ranch. The Evidence series will continue next week. For now, some IPCC fun. The Consensus says its 95% sure that the man has caused the…
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Too Damn Sure: The Epidemiologist Fallacy
Introduction Marchmain Pharmaceuticals distributes profitizol, said to cure the screaming willies. To assess that claim, Marchmain assembled volunteers suffering this dread malady. Each provided his address, which was used to…
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Do Heat Waves Cause Birth Defects?
What would you name a paper which purports to discover that heat waves stress pregnant women and thus cause birth defects but which never once measures the actual exposure of…
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Armed EPA Ignores Subpoena, Conducts Secret Science, More!
Call the EPA's rule-making Nancy-Pelosi science: you must first pass the regulations before you find out the evidence for them. No: That's not quite right. Because even after its regulations…
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How’d We Do On Our 2013 Predictions?
We have proved yet again that the future is that undiscovered country with our predictions for 2013. See the original guesses here. Don't make new predictions here. Tomorrow I'll start…
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Bishop Tutu: “I’d Rather Go To Hell Than…”
Desmond Tutu, the once-famous Anglican bishop, made the news when he said yesterday, "I would not worship a God who is homophobic and that is how deeply I feel about…
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Top 20 Posts Of All Time: Reader’s Choice
Start of long weekend, where the Nation trips happily outside into the warm summer sun. Well, sun anyway---more or less. Not really summer, either. Turns out the climate change forecasts…
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Krauthammer’s Wrong: NSA Spying Not Equivalent To Policing
Charles Krauthammer ought to be taken seriously. He said yesterday from his daily perch that he wasn't concerned about NSA spying on Americans because there hasn't been any or many…
