Comments on: GIGO In Action

By: Don Singleton

Don Singleton — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:23:53 +0000

Blowing Hot Air…

If you are going to use statistics to lie, it helps to be able to choose the statistics to quote….

By: Global Warming, Hurricanes, and the Anti-Science Right - Liberal Values - Defending Liberty and Enlightened Thought

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:29:51 +0000

[...] Search engines and Memeorandum reveal considerable buzz about this article in the conservative blogosphere. They generally grab onto the controversy and, despite the lack of any expertise in the field or even reviewing the actual journal article, are unanimous in declaring that the findings are bogus. A typical conservative response can be seen at Blue Crab Boulevard. [...]

By: FedUp

FedUp — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:07:20 +0000

Oh Dear! I guess next they’ll be telling us the world isn’t flat!

By: Neo

Neo — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:36:09 +0000

Equally credible study:

MP3 damage to human hearing up after Beatles come to America.

data: 1960 no reported damage
1964 Beatles come to America
2007 at least one

By: Rich Horton

Rich Horton — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:58:50 +0000

Hear, hear. I’ve been arguing against these fraudulent “studies” for a long time now. (My latest tirade is here.)

I wrote that last night based on the Reuters article…which reminds me of soemthing since you quoted the egregious bit:

Skeptics say hurricane data from the early decades of the 20th century are not reliable because cyclones likely formed and died in mid-ocean, where no one knew they existed.

Skeptics? It is these researcher who are outside the mainstream of the scientific literature. By every normal use of the word THEY are the skeptics.

This type of crapola really gets me going.

*grumble*