One of the most common sleazy tricks used by various sorts of denialists comes back to statistics - invalid and deceptive sampling methods. In fact, the very first real post on the original version of this blog was a...
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Posted on May 6, 2008 4:01 PM • 23 Comments •
Yet another reader sent me a link to a really annoying article at a site called "Daily Tech". The article has been more than adequately debunked by Darksyde at Daily Kos, but it's a very typical example of a...
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Posted on February 28, 2008 8:12 PM • 46 Comments •
I've been getting a lot of mail from people asking for my take on the news about the Washington GOP primary. Most have wanted me to debunk rumours about vote fixing there, the way that I tried to debunk...
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Posted on February 11, 2008 12:03 PM • 31 Comments •
My friend, fellow ScienceBlogger, and BlogFather Orac asked me to take a look at a paper that purportedly shows that abortion is a causative risk factor for breast cancer, which he posted about this morning. When the person who...
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Posted on October 25, 2007 12:15 PM • 17 Comments •