Data science… The COVID-19 Dead Cat Strategy 16 Sep 202027 Sep 2020 Lynton Crosby is famously credited with the invention of the ‘dead cat’ strategy. The dead cat is, of course, metaphorical. It represents a political tool used to manipulate discourse and…
Junk Science… Corona virus – Quarantine the Healthy 8 Jul 20209 Jul 2020 The Corona Virus and the Profits of Doom Ask any member of the general public what a virion is and they will probably guess that they are an alien race…
Junk Science A Dose of Fracking 5 Feb 20205 Feb 2020 Just when you finish writing an article on correlation, someone posts a brilliant article on the misuse of statistics. Josh Bloom posted an article on 'Pricncipia Scientific' that has a…
Global Warming… Global warming and the climate of Doom. 12 Nov 201916 Jul 2020 A while ago I posted a Python tutorial on the Met Office data set for Oxford in the Uk which goes back to 1850. The original file was very messy.…
