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It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these posts, so to catch you all up, here are my prior entries in the series. The Problem with Privilege (or: you got sexism in my skepticism!) The Problem with Privilege (or: no, you’re not a racist misogynist ass, calm down) The Problem with Privilege (or: [...]
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The Problem with Privilege (or: Evidential Skepticism)
October 4th, 2011 
Jason Thibeault 
Posted in Blogosphere, Gender, Privilege 
Tags: evidence, feminism, gender, misogyny, privilege, rape, Rebecca Watson, sexism, sexuality, skepticism, women 
77 Comments »Climate noise amplification
September 3rd, 2011 Jason Thibeault Ever notice that once in a while, when observing scientific matters, you have a signal to noise problem that’s really difficult to overcome? I’m not talking about the actual problems of signal-to-noise in building studies, especially out of short and uncorrelated pieces of data. I’m talking about the amplification that goes on in the denialist [...]
Posted in Climate, Science Tags: cheating, climate change, climategate, evidence, global warming, Phil Jones, science 77 Comments »Kirkby on cosmic rays and climate change
August 31st, 2011 Jason Thibeault I’m posting this specifically for Klem, if he’s still reading. He asked that the cosmic ray forcing hypothesis be convincingly rebutted before he’d start taking the science proving climate change seriously. Well, since the hypothesis is predicated on Jasper Kirkby’s work, perhaps his words will help tip the scales. Kirkby built a damn fine experiment [...]
Posted in Climate, Pseudoscience, Science Tags: climate change, cosmic rays, evidence, global warming, pseudoscience, science 9 Comments »Mann vindicated yet again; no tampering with hockey stick graph
August 23rd, 2011 Jason Thibeault The NSF Inspector General closed out the investigation of Michael Mann, central focus of the ClimateGate manufactroversy, after finding no malfeasance. This brings the total “vindications” up to at least seven. From the report: As part of our investigation, we attempted to determine if data fabrication or falsification may have occurred and interviewed the subject, [...]
How we know things in science, and how we can know things about abiogenesis
August 8th, 2011 Jason Thibeault 
On this blog post over at Greg Laden’s, I’ve made a damn fine effort (if I do say so myself) at explaining the process of scientific inquiry to a pair of commenters who’ve taken issue with the idea that anyone could know anything about the event of abiogenesis — the “Origin of Life”, when the [...]
How we know all life shares a common origin
August 3rd, 2011 Jason Thibeault According to Anthony McCarthy over at Greg’s blog, extrapolating from this information to determine something about how life began on this planet is purely ideological mythmaking. Never mind that every species on the planet shares the same metabolism, by the same enzymes, which must be coded for by the same combinations of chemicals, and these [...]
Posted in Asshats, Science Tags: abiogenesis, emergence, evidence, knowledge, privilege, science 1 Comment »RCimT: Climate round-up
July 31st, 2011 Jason Thibeault Apropos of the topic of discussion for today’s radio show, here’s a roundup of some links related to climate change, plus some other related sciencey bits that I otherwise just wanted to get out of my tabs. Enjoy! Here’s how climate change was subsumed into the “culture war”. Good overview of how we got to [...]
Posted in Climate, Random Crap in my Tabs, Science Tags: astroturf, cheating, climate change, culture war, evidence, global warming, grassroots, politics, science, space, troll 1 Comment »Sagan never said this about climate change, which BTW is STILL HAPPENING.
July 29th, 2011 Jason Thibeault When science says something potentially damaging to your bottom line, and all the evidence points to the inevitable conclusion that yes, that potentially damaging thing is real and really damaging both to your bottom line and to the fate of human civilization, what’s your first reaction? Naturally, lie like crazy for half a century until [...]
Fellow racists come to the defense of Kanazawa
June 20th, 2011 Jason Thibeault Or: wherein Stephanie Zvan shows us little folks exactly how we can step in and bloody the nose of a bloody bigot with a PhD. In case you haven’t heard of this ongoing debacle, Dr. Satoshi Kanazawa recently published a rather controversial article claiming that black women are objectively less attractive. This study was published [...]
Psychic fails to predict her utter failure
June 17th, 2011 Jason Thibeault This isn’t surprising, but it is an excellent example of what not to do if you’re trying to win fame and fortune as a psychic. It should hopefully serve as an object lesson for why one needs to consider the simpler solution when someone claims special knowledge, but honestly, I don’t expect it will change [...]
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