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Last year, 3 Quarks Daily had a science blogging contest that shelled out some nice cash to the Top Quark. Well, they're at it again! You can now stop by and nominate your favorite posts by leaving a comment here. I know there's a lot of great writing going on here at Science Blogs, so look around…
Regular readers out there will already be familiar with the groups of people who deny evolutionary theory, who deny that HIV causes AIDS, even those who deny that germs cause disease, period. Wilhelm Godshalk is even on the record for denying gravity. I don't know what it is about this site, and…
So the other day, I was talking to someone about one of the studies I was planning on posting about. I mentioned one of the results, and he said he'd really like to see the means and standard deviations. I thought to myself, "Alright, I'll put those in the post," but when I actually started writing…
While I'm away, I'll leave you with this introduction to likelihood theory (originally published Nov. 22, 2005). In the Washington Post last week, Charles Krauthammer boldly opposed the Tin Foil Helmet wing of the Republican Party by calling intelligent design a "fraud." The best part of his column…