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Author Archives: Fallacy Man
Winning the war with the “Food Babe Army”
Over the past week, something truly amazing has happened on the internet. The skeptic community has risen up and unanimously decried the quackery and fear mongering that constantly spews from Vani Hari’s mouth (and website). Vani Hari, better known as … Continue reading
Evolution doesn’t give organisms what they need
When I am teaching evolution, I often like to ask my students to think about why a particular feature or trait evolved. I might, for example, ask them why flying squirrels evolved a flap of skin between their legs that … Continue reading
Posted in Science of Evolution
Tagged evolution, evolution is blind, natural selection
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Basic Statistics Part 3: The Dangers of Large Data Sets: A Tale of P values, Error Rates, and Bonferroni Corrections
In previous posts, I have explained the importance of having lots of data, but what I failed to mention was the dangers of analyzing these large data sets. You see, all real data has variation in it, and when you … Continue reading
Posted in Nature of Science
Tagged evaluating evidence, peer-reviewed studies, sample size, statistics
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What does it mean to be a skeptic?
It is good to be skeptical about everything that you hear and read. In fact, skepticism is one of the defining characteristics of a scientist. Nevertheless, terms like “skeptic” and “open-minded” are often misappropriated by people in the anti-science movement, … Continue reading
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Tagged anti vaccine arguments, evaluating evidence
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Evolution is blind
One of the central tenets of evolutionary biology is the concept that evolution is blind. In other words, it has not foresight or goal. This principle is extremely important for understanding how evolution works, but it’s a concept that is … Continue reading
Posted in Science of Evolution
Tagged Bad arguments, evolution, evolution is blind, irreducible complexity, natural selection
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