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Mandatory National Standards For Salt Content Coming To A Government Near You

What's better: (A) voluntarily reducing your salt intake, or (B) having the government mandate that you do so? Naturally, if you don't opt for A, you get B, which we…

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Peer Review Fails? Sympathetic Priest? What’s Going On Here?

Duke Scores Another Own Goal According to Science, Duke University oncologist Anil Potti quit after being caught cheating: Anil Potti had published papers in prominent journals identifying gene signatures in…

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Statistical Significance Does Not Mean What You Think. Climate Temperature Trends. Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 7

There are a subset of professional statisticians---defined as folks who have had formal training in the field given to them by other professionals---who feel that the field of statistics is…

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The Horrible Dangers Of Third-Hand Smoke

All countries have been known to periodically lose their minds. France in 1789 banned religion by the point of a blade, Russia in 1917 banned freedom by the barrel of…

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Some Common Global Warming Fallacies

The level of debate on global warming is shriekingly poor. Not that I have any hope of convincing the world to reject bad logic, but here are some of the…

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Does Exposure To American Flag Shift Support Toward Republicanism?

It was just two red-white-and-blue weeks ago that we learned, via some Hahvard dons, that attending Fourth of July parades was likely to make one develop Republican sympathies. This finding…

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Wrong -> Immoral -> Illegal?

Says Paul Krugman, a writer for a local New York paper, The only way weâ€™re going to get action, Iâ€™d suggest, is if those who stand in the way of…

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Wall Street Journal: Better than a statistics textbook.

On Thursday 14 August, the Wall Street Journal had two excellent articles, which expertly described the statistics and uncertainty of their topics. Several readers have wrote in asking for an…

John Pate on Prominent Academic Asks: When And How Did Statistics Lose Its Way? November 23, 2024
You're a bit hard on old R.A. I vaguely remember reading one of his books. What killed statistics was software,…
John Pate on The Impossibilities Of Quantum ComputingNovember 23, 2024
String Theorists can make a good living with nonsense, so can Quantum Computer enthusiasts. You've just got to hand wave…
Why Pope Benedict’s resignation was valid: a response to Dr. Mazza - LifeSite - Christianity House on The Is-Pope-Francis-The-Pope Debate Continues. Two Views from Edmund J Mazza and Steven O’ReillyNovember 22, 2024
[…] [5] See “The Is-Pope-Francis-The-Pope Debate Continues. Two Views from Edmund J Mazza and Steven O’Reilly,” on the WMBRIGGS website.…
Uncle Mike on Mark Twain On The Dictatorship Of HealthNovember 22, 2024
It's a topsy-turvy world! The schools ban lunches but allow boys in the girls bathrooms. Peanuts bad, rape okay. But…
Oral.sk - Necenzurované správy Pre?o bola rezignácia pápeža Benedikta platná: odpove? Dr. Mazzovi on The Is-Pope-Francis-The-Pope Debate Continues. Two Views from Edmund J Mazza and Steven O’ReillyNovember 22, 2024
[…] [5] Pozri “Debata o tom, ?i je pápež František pápežom, pokra?uje. Dva poh?ady Edmunda J. Mazzu a Stevena O’Reillyho,”…