President Bush’s Iran strategy revealed!

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Ode to Sam

!http://homepage.mac.com/johnj1/.cv/johnj1/Sites/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2003-06-23%2010.40.39%20-0700/Image-134ED692A5A111D7.jpg-thumb_273_205.jpg! No longer will I have the sight of her butt in my face while I’m doing yoga. Sam, our sunshine kitty who has graced our lives for almost 8 years, passed away today due to squamous cell cancer in the mouth. We adopted her when she was 2 or 3 years old, a vagabond [...]

Gelman posts his chapter on ‘Lying with statistics’

Andrew Gelman, a prominent Bayesian statistician, has posted a chapter ‘”Lying with Statistics”:http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2006/07/using_numbers_t.html’ from his book. A good read, with good examples.

Random John quackery update — I regressed

Bizarre, just bizarre. My canard rating dropped like a stone with just two entries! I didn’t even try. Perhaps I should stop using such terms as “placebo” and “quackery.”

Gates’s sick vision of internet-connected household a step closer to reality

How long before we see ads for Tide because our laundry didn’t come clean and a notice popped up on our toaster telling us that?

I must be a quack – the quack-o-meter told me so!

I don’t know if I can add anything to this. I think I might go for 10 canards. I wonder what I would have to do… I mean seriously, if a personal blog that espouses critical thinking of a different sort from Robert Carroll and the skeptics circle can get 8 canards out of 10, [...]

Grounds for confidence

By engaging in that bit of quackery known as “sugar detox,” I have lost 7.5 pounds in the last two weeks. That’s right. By drinking my coffee black (and cutting back to one cup a day) and eliminating sweets from my diet I’ve gone from around 210 to 202.5 in two short weeks. The only [...]

Sugar detox – Week 2

About a week ago, I decided to do a sugar detox. Of course, the day after I decided this I went to a birthday party and had some of the cake and ice cream. (Custom-made cake.) Boy, was that a mistake! Even having been off refined and easily convertible sugar for 36 hours, I felt [...]

Oh dear, not again

I couldn’t stand it last year, and I can’t stand it now. I want to move to Canada. !http://homepage.mac.com/johnj1/.Pictures/jul2006_100s.jpg!

This is one risk analysis I don’t want to write