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Your Belief In God Is Causing Your Denial Of AGW
Update Simon Donner has a blog post on this paper, which links back here. Since all comments are closed after 8 days (to battle spam), I'm moving this post to…
Posted inCulture Statistics
Number Of Ways To Go Nuts To Increase: DSM-V
Here are the official number of ways you can go nuts, according to the peer-reviewed Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The DSM-I started in 1952 with just 601…
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A Case Of Failed Peer Review: Dust And Death
The distance between what civilians think peer review is and what it actually is suffers from the same failing as that evinced by Han Solo---rare pop culture reference!---when he boasted…
Posted inPhilosophy
Prominent philosopher commits global warming fallacy
This post was supposed to be titled, "Conference Report: Day 1," because I intended to give a blow-by-blow of the American Meteorological Society meeting which started yesterday here in New…
Posted inStatistics
Is climatology a pseudoscience?
The short answer, I will disappoint many of you by saying, is no. Like I wrote before, climatologists are generally nice people genuinely struggling with understanding the immense complexities of…
Posted inPhilosophy
Statistics’ dirtiest secret
The old saying that "You can prove anything using statistics" isn't true. It is a lie, and a damned lie, at that. It is an ugly, vicious, scurrilous distortion, undoubtedly…
Posted inPhilosophy
The tyranny and hubris of experts
Today, another brief (in the sense of intellectual content) essay, as I'm still working on the Madrid talk, the Heartland conference is this weekend, and I have to, believe it…
Posted inFun
People take off their shirts when it gets hot: peer-reviewed study
I am finding it difficult to breathe after reading this abstract from a peer-reviewed scholarly article in a respected journal1. This paper describes the application of a methodology designed to…
