Two months ago, before climategate, nobody ever talked about a climate “conspiracy theory”. People who didn’t believe in man-made climate change were not accused of being conspiracy theorists, they were simply ‘deniers’, denialists, contrarians and naysayers.
Now, thanks to climategate, we learn that there was a conspiracy to thwart Freedom of Information requests, manipulate data, and [...]
Jason Soon asked for feedback and opinions on the Scientific Article, Seven Answers to Climate Contrarian Nonsense.
Jason, since you asked, here’s my take on that article. I think it’s weak in many places, but particularly weak when it gets to climategate.
The Scientific American (SciAm) article by John Rennie looks at seven claims of so-called contrarians [...]
After entertaining us with the puzzle of the three hats and the puzzle of the hundred hats (solutions here and here), John Tierney brings us the God-Oppenheimer-Einstein Dice Puzzle.
Tagged Einstein, games, mathematics, Oppenheimer, probability, puzzles, statistics, TierneyAccording to a recent report, up to 40 percent of coma patients in a ‘vegetative state’ may be misdiagnosed.
“The biggest, most tragic clinical myth about brain injury today is that PVS can be reliably diagnosed by bedside observation alone. It has in fact been known for at least a decade, ever since a key [...]
Empiricist.com is now online.
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