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Featured Articles Why Science Is Broken: Hillsdale Speech Video & Transcript Now Online The Probability Of A Head In A Coin Flip Is 1, Not 1/2 The Great Global Warming—A.K.A.…
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Pew’s Public and Scientists’ Views on Science and Society Survey
Pew did a survey on the Public and Scientists' Views on Science and Society that is of modest interest. Turns out civilians love whitecoats. Science holds an esteemed place among…
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Herd Immunity And Christianity
There on that hillock is a herd of cattle, all but one of which is inoculated against hoof-and-mouth disease. Chances are the one beast that escaped vaccination won't fall ill…
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How Effective Was This Year’s Flu Vaccine?
A reader asks, was this year's flu shot effective? Short answer: Looks to be, but there is no definitive way to know. In order to know definitively for any one…
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Interest In On-Line Statistics Courses?
You might have heard what happened to when Stanford professor Andrew Ng put his machine learning (a practical kind of statistical modeling) on line. He expected mild interest. One hundred…
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New Editorial Against Editorializing In Science Journals
The editorial is mine, Willie Soon's, David Legates's, and Bob Carter's, and it appears in the latest edition of Water, Air, & Soil Pollution. It's entitled "A Vaccine Against Arrogance"…
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Journal Editor Still Inserting Politics Into Science: Trevors and Saier Strike Back
The story thus far: Jack Trevors, bigwig at the learned journal Water Air Soil Pollution, and occasionally along with his pal Milton Saier, has been in the habit of abusing…
Posted inPhilosophy
Education: A Vaccine Against Ignorance? Or, There Are Too Many People!
"Currently, one could argue that the most significant form of global pollution is human population growth." So says Mr Jack Trevors, Editor-in-Chief of Water, Air, & Soil Pollution (WASP), "an…
