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Several times in the past I have posited that folks in power simply hate buses. How else to explain light rail and high speed rail projects that are both substantially more expensive and substantially less flexible than buses.
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Anyway, this story from Iowa seems to support my point — the government is proposing to spend tens of millions of dollars to create a rail service that is slower and more costly than existing private bus service.

William M. Briggs, Statistician » Statistics Galore! Ithaca Teaching Journal, Day 0

The burden of proof should always be on those who cry “Cluster!” to show what biological mechanism causes the cancers in those that have it and does not in those that do not have it. Raw statistical “proof” that clusters exist are of little to no use.

RealClimate: [If the science is so settled, why is warmist Gavin Schmidt asking these questions?]

What is the role of salinity variations in the development of an El Niño event? Can we validate rainfall and evaporation estimates by looking at the change in ocean salinity? Can we quantify sea ice melt by its impact on salt?

NASA Scientists Admit To “Big Data Gap”

When I watched this video, I thought: “Wait a minute – I thought the science was settled, and that the models were pretty much fine-tuned and all.” But as you see in the video, three scientists are telling us there are still lots of data gaps that need to be filled in, and that this will take years to do.