Posted on 10/27/2019 2:44:06 PM PDT by 11th_VA
“Give me a big enough grant to hire a compliant “scientist” and I can do a study that proves the hole in the ozone is how carbon escapes from the atmosphere into space.”
Similar in spirit to what I told the VA wanker who insisted that “studies show” morphine is not a good painkiller.
Took a course in college called “Lying with Statistics.”
Took a course in college called “Lying with Statistics.”
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Heh.
Saw a study that said that most people publishing studies, and the doctors reading them, have no more skill or education in statistics than the average grad and get s**t wrong *all* the time. And that’s why “studies” are so constantly reversed and so often un-reproducible.
“And that’s why “studies” are so constantly reversed and so often un-reproducible.”
Yes, that and malicious dishonesty.
“It hasn’t helped in any real way I can tell.”
Their motto is “worse is better.”
DuPont created the Freon crisis. Never been a time without an ozone hole in winter.
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