When eco-terrorists destroyed a sugar beet field in Oregon a few years ago, the local organic industry group there said they were shocked anyone would be violent, even though the organic industry there demonized science daily. The attackers could not have been unknown to local groups, it is certain they were part of the community.But how did they switch from misguided - mutagenesis chemical and...
read moreMathematics is a language and languages can be used to create stories. It just takes imagination to create time travel or wormholes or theories of strings or lots of nice things theoretical physicists throw into arXiv.Sometimes math has to create a story because real numbers don't work, even if the physics does.Wave-particle duality, a foundation of quantum mechanics, has a fascinating science...
read moreIf you believe the Chinese government, they've had basically no meaningful COVID-19 deaths since March. I'd also like to sell you a wet market in Wuhan. Believing a dictatorship that has routinely lied has been disastrous. It was disastrous for the reputation of the World Health Organisation, who claimed no travel should be curtailed and that the virus could not spread from human to human because...
read moreIf there is one lesson that political experts may have finally gotten in 2020, it's that polls are shockingly inaccurate.read more
read moreIf there is one lesson that political experts may have finally gotten in 2020, it's that polls are shockingly inaccurate.read more
read moreThere is a popular saying in statistics - "Everyone believes the data except the collector. No one believes the model except the modeler."read more
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