Tuesday, December 1, 2020

“[H]as the potential to cause some problems with GOP messaging.”

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Following up from last week's post . Just to be clear, these posts are making any predictions about any upcoming races. Instead, this ...
Monday, November 30, 2020

Please make it stop: deficit edition

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 This is Joseph So, I know that inflation is a potential menace and ignoring debt has gotten many an advanced nation into trouble. These are...
Friday, November 27, 2020

This may be crazy talk but there might be a subtle flaw in the tactic of telling your base votes don't matter

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Anne Applebaum doesn't see it [emphasis added] I’m afraid that I think it’s a little bit more sinister than that. I think that — certai...
Thursday, November 26, 2020

"As God as my witness..." is my second favorite Thanksgiving episode line [Repost]

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  If you watch this and you could swear you remember Johnny and Mr. Carlson discussing Pink Floyd, you're not imagining things. Hul...
Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Six years ago in the blog

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 The news that inspired this post have largely faded from memory but that last paragraph still has a certain relevance. Friday, November 21,...
Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Sub-groups in clinical trials

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 This is Joseph Astra-Zeneca/Oxford have the third (or fourth if you include Sputnik V) successful covid-19 vaccine. This is exceedingly goo...
Monday, November 23, 2020

Some data quality issues in a published paper

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 This is Joseph This paper has been getting a lot of attention, and not the best kind. The discussion has some unexpectedd  conclusions: Wh...
Friday, November 20, 2020

Twitter and media freedom

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This is Joseph I remain astounded by this particular story .  Probably not for the reasons that one might think. Twitter is a private platfo...
Thursday, November 19, 2020

"The Denialist Playbook"

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Writing in Scientific American , Sean B. Carroll looks at a wide range of anti-science activists, from creationists to climate change denier...
Wednesday, November 18, 2020

One of the many nice things about not having the long shot pull off a win this election is that we don't have to listen to endless told-you-sos from people who stumbled into a correct guess.

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Given that, it seems like a good time to remember the 20th Century prognosticator who may have set the record for building a career on a luc...
Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Wrong about the Wright brothers

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Following up on yesterday's post, the standard narrative about the Wright brothers was they were two nobodies laboring in obscurity. Whe...
Monday, November 16, 2020

You'll be shocked to learn that one of the most popular TED Talk stars is pretty much just lying to your face

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Simon Sinek is one of the most successful of the TED Talk celebrities and this is one of his most popular v...
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Friday, November 13, 2020

XKCD's Electoral Precedent 2020

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You might need to blow this one up.
Thursday, November 12, 2020

Ground source heat pumps are "the most energy-efficient, environmentally clean, and cost-effective space conditioning systems available," but maybe we can get journalists to talk about them anyway.

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I'm joking but I'm not kidding.  If Elon Musk or some other Silicon Valley visionary proposed some laughable plan based on non-exist...
Wednesday, November 11, 2020

IMDBtv -- Corner Gas fans are going to feel I buried the lede

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A good narrative (fact-based, complex, evolving) helps you see important things you otherwise have missed. A bad narrative makes you miss th...