Archive for the “junk science” category

On Michigan Proposal 1

November 4, 2008

Anonymous left a comment on Medical Marijuana in Michigan:

This article hurts the proposal more than helps it…while medicinal marijuana may prove beneficial, there are significant reasons why marijuana should not be legalized to the general public.

The crux of my post was, “Who cares if medicinal marijuana is on the ballot?” Medical marijuana may be [...]

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Posted in: Drug War Rants, Election '08, Legalese, Michigan, junk science | 4 Comments


CoyoteBlog on Health Care

January 9, 2008

The CoyoteBlog explodes the methodology of a recent study which appears to show that the health care system in the U.S. is significantly worse than other developed countries. One choice tidbit:
I have a very smart reader group, so my sense is that many of you already see the gaffe here. [...]

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Posted in: American Politics, Health Care, junk science | Be the First to Comment


Junk Science: FBI Edition

December 4, 2007

I haven’t heard or read much hullabaloo about last week’s news (or was it two weeks ago) about comparative bullet analysis, which has basically been revealed as pseudo-science, at best. Of note:
The government has fought releasing the list of the estimated 2,500 cases over three decades in which it performed the analysis…
Still, [one [...]

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Life Expectancy & Junk Science

September 12, 2007

Another survey in bad statistical analysis is that of the life expectancy gap, the myth being that people in the U.S. simply don’t live as long as those in other parts of the world.
Now, I’m not sure what the spread is between the U.S. and the “forty countries” behind which it lags in this statistic, [...]

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Posted in: World Politics, junk science | 1 Comment