Frequently Asked Questions

Why contend that Global Warming is religion and not science?

How do Relative Risk and Odds Ratio compare?

Why are linearity and non-linearity so important?

What has the weakest link to do with fallacies in medical statistics?

Is it true that there was a scare in the 1970s about global cooling?

What is so important and dangerous about feedback?

Is there such a thing as average global temperature?

So, what is so wrong about the BMA report on smoking and fertility?

Why do you contend that the "grey goo"  theory is untenable?

What is the background to the increasing power cuts?

What are the complications of averages?

What are the implications of data smoothing?

What is the Uncertainty Principle and how is it relevant?

What is the second law of thermodynamics and why so important?

What is a data dredge and why so condemnatory?

What is meant by RR?

What is statistical significance and what has P to do with it?

What is a Trojan Number?

What is the Poisson distribution and why is it so important?

What is the Normal Distribution and what is so normal about it?

The Binomial Distribution seems fundamental; where does it come from?

But what exactly do you mean by a distribution?

What is so dangerous about computer models?

What exactly is the Greenhouse Effect?

What is the extreme value fallacy?

Is it possible to quantify the effects of publication bias?

What are the dangers of fitting linear trends to data?

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