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Researchers: Living Under The Sin-Of-Pride Flag Produces Flashbacks To Noah’s Flood

Read this The Science sentence with me and see if you enjoy it as much as I did: "Long before climate change, California’s Great Flood of 1862 stretched up to…

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Why Bayes Is Not The Fix We Need: A Critique of Bayesian Inference and its Application

I've pointed out many times some of the weaknesses of traditional statistical practices, and how the routine use of "hypothesis testing" leads to an ever-growing mountain of Broken Science. Some…

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The Disparagement Of Epidemiology

I was having an argument with a friend who was on his way to a conference to point out the shortcomings and over-confidence of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM). With EBM,…

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Unleash The Infected Mosquitos!

Experts are harvesting a mutant strain of wolbachia bacteria, infecting male mosquitos with it, and then releasing those infected male mosquitoes into Hawaiian airspace, in the hopes that these infected…

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MRI Claims 92% Accuracy Predicting Sexual “Orientation”. My Schmengee Mediscan 3000™ Beats It

The news, considered marvelous to some because it seems to confirm how good MRIs are at uncovering secrets of the brain, is that MRIs can predict "sexual orientation" with 92%…

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Why Dembski’s Design Inference (Of Causation) Goes Wrong

Probability does not exist; therefore, nothing has a probability, so nothing can be caused by probability, though the uncertainty of statements can be had conditional on assumptions, and this probability…

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The Less You Know About Climate, The More You Cry About Climate

Some things, the saying goes, are too good to check. Take the peer-reviewed paper "Environmental knowledge is inversely associated with climate change anxiety" by Hannes Zacher and Cort W. Rudolph…

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Scientists Use The Double-Dog Epidemiologist Fallacy To Claim Breathing Induces Antibiotic Resistance

Thanks to AS! I don't have your email, so I hope you see this. The epidemiologist fallacy occurs when a scientist announces, directly or implicitly, that X Causes Y, but…

Daniel F on Fixing College: Hit Them In The Money, Replace Their PrestigeNovember 12, 2024
The major roadblock in the US is discrimination lawsuits at the hiring / employer level. B.A.'s are largely used as…
Johnno on Fixing College: Hit Them In The Money, Replace Their PrestigeNovember 12, 2024
Hear! Hear! Briggs! Let us begin by awarding ourselved medals for a job well done. The greater the screeching for…
JH on Fixing College: Hit Them In The Money, Replace Their PrestigeNovember 12, 2024
From my experience, watering down in mathematics has been occurring since I began teaching nearly three decades ago. This trend…
DAA on Fixing College: Hit Them In The Money, Replace Their PrestigeNovember 12, 2024
One of the most problematic aspects of this change is how to really evaluate people. Universities as they stand do…
Paul Fischer on Fixing College: Hit Them In The Money, Replace Their PrestigeNovember 12, 2024
Join? RAB? Who's in the group so far? I mean, it's a great idea, but shouldn't we focus on slaying…