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Friday, February 1, 2013

Shame On Them

It's not just that they wear funny pointed hats....they abuse children and cover it up.

That's Some Bad Epidemiology

One doesn't look for cases of just about anything and then draw a circle around the area.

One defines what biological endpoint one is looking for, then determines how large an area to look in, breaks up a larger area into smaller areas in an objective fashion, and then makes comparisons.  One also has to use confidence intervals (ie, one small area may have a larger number of cases of a certain biological endpoint due purely to chance).

UK Learns Of US Ignorance

Their comments within the link says it all.

The City Of Light Is About To Get Dimmer

Unnecessary lighting is light pollution and contributes to global warming (yes, even though France is predominantly nuclear powered).