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Inside Fracakademia’s Latest Assault on Science by STEVE HORN CounterPunch September 17, 2013 The long-awaited Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)-sponsored hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) fugitive methane...

“Is creation a viable model of origins in today’s modern scientific era?” Point-by-point Analysis and Commentary: KEN HAM | 5 min. Opening Statement: Ham opens up with this quote from the Richard Dawkins Foundation [RDF]: &ldquo...

O’Reilly just surveyed 250 data scientists about their skills and came up with the four types of data scientist--and one shocking outside finding. For a profession whose entire “raison d’etre” is quantitative analysis, the role...

All photographs by Jessica Camille Aguirre. All rights restricted. Left: Blood samples are tested at the U.S. Naval research laboratory in Lima, Peru, to determine dengue strains from patients in Iquitos.    THERE ARE FEW PLACES where you...

(This article was originally published at Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) Kevin Gray sent me a bunch of questions on Bayesian statistics and I responded. The interview is here at KDnuggets news...