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Just what are falling temperatures evidence of?

If increasing temperatures are consistent with or are evidence of global warming, what theory is consistent with or evidence of falling temperatures? Global warming, too? We have to ask this…

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We made “noteworthy”

Which is one step below "honourable mention", which itself is just under the actual winner. Or, in other words, we lost. Several months ago Roger Kimball instituted a contest: Name…

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Set up your recorders: tomorrow’s the day!

For those readers in the States and Canada (and elsewhere?) who get the History channel, tomorrow, Tuesday 23 December, is The Big Day. I'll be on the show Weird US…

Statistics

The MIT Dahn Yoga Brain Respiration Experiment: Part I

This series originally begin 3 January 2009. This is only Part I; the remaining parts are linked below. INTRODUCTION On 20 September 2004, in the Physics Department at MIT, sponsored…

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The MIT Dahn Yoga Brain Respiration Experiment: Part II

STUDY DESIGN As I mentioned last time, it is crucial to design a test that eliminates all possibility and suspicion of cheating. If the KIBS kids were going to demonstrate…

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People with nothing to do will find something to do

Universities have are a long way from what Aristotle had in mind. Full documentation here. At least download and read the letters the University sent to Sampson. Just hilarious.

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Why I will never fly US Air

You will have heard by now that US Air has offered the Hudson crash survivors a full year's worth of upgrades for their trouble. "Sorry you nearly died. Here's a…

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I’m thinking of turning to crime

He is a man of good birth and excellent education, endowed by nature with a phenomenal mathematical faculty. At the age of twenty-one he wrote A Treatise on the Binomial…

Milton Hathaway on Experts: Please Begin Panicking Over Bird Flu. Us: No. Experts: (Sob)January 8, 2025
I consider myself an Expert in skepticism, and I like to apply it well beyond my area of Expertise. Perhaps…
Steve on Experts: Please Begin Panicking Over Bird Flu. Us: No. Experts: (Sob)January 8, 2025
"Topping 22 annual deaths in 8 billion people is the easiest task you will ever assign a statistician." I know…
Uncle Mike on Experts: Please Begin Panicking Over Bird Flu. Us: No. Experts: (Sob)January 8, 2025
The number one cause of death is the elephant in the room. So what we need is an MRNA "vaccine"…
Timothy on Register Your Predictions For 2025!January 8, 2025
predictions for 2025 1. A new Unified Theory of DIE, Climate Change, and Reparations will be proposed: "POC's, and POC's…
Rudolph Harrier on Experts: Please Begin Panicking Over Bird Flu. Us: No. Experts: (Sob)January 8, 2025
What's fascinating about the Hoss is that she can be deeply skeptical of models being confused with reality when it…