The blog Wattsupwiththat makes an excellent point (hat tip: commeter “huxley”)—one that the press might have pointed out as well, had its members been the least bit interested in doing their jobs: if the raw data was actually destroyed back … Continue reading →
Commenter “BumperStickerist” at Ace’s makes the following observation about Climategate: What the CRU is doing is identical to what Bernie Madoff did. Bernie asserted that his investment scheme was legit. Bernie didn’t share his raw data. There were skeptics who … Continue reading →
If you haven’t read these three pieces on Climategate yet, I suggest you do: this, this, and this.
Continue reading →Climategate is endlessly fascinating; I could write and read about it all day if I let myself. It has many of the most suspenseful elements of fiction (Michael Crichton fiction, to be exact), but truth tends to be stranger—and to … Continue reading →
A couple of must-read articles: Poor Harry, the hapless computer programmer. And about that code.
Continue reading →Because I’ve been away from civilization for nearly four days, I haven’t been able to follow the twistings and turnings of Climategate as closely as I otherwise would. But from my quick perusal of the subject today, it strikes me … Continue reading →
By now you’ve probably all heard the remarkable case of Rom Houben, the young man trapped in a paralyzed body for 23 years, unable to communicate and thought to be in a vegetative state. Recent brain scans indicated much more … Continue reading →
It’s been clear for quite some time that the AGW controversy has morphed from a scientific to a religious war—although in this case, it’s the AGW scientists who are the “religious” fanatics. That sort of situation cannot help but spell … Continue reading →
It is way too early to know whether the just-released emails and other papers purporting to be from University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) are real or fake. If real, they represent a sort of Pentagon Papers-ish revelation, … Continue reading →
It’s difficult to understand the new mammogram recommendations that suggest that women who are not in high risk groups because of genetic predispositions to breast cancer only begin screening at fifty, and then only every other year, and that doctors … Continue reading →
Take a look: The Dunning”“Kruger effect is an example of cognitive bias in which “people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it”. The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory … Continue reading →
Here’s a truly fascinating article on the subject of placebos. Commenter “Donna” brought it to attention in the thread on acupuncture, and it’s relevant to that subject and so much more. I don’t have time to do an in-depth piece … Continue reading →