pbradley's blog entries posted on 12/2008

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Crispin Sartwell

Reasononline has a brief article titled "Anarchist Philosopher Does Not Consent to be Governed!" with links to interview with Crispin Sartwell (Dickinson).

Fallacious Mathematical Modeling

There was an absurd story about a mathematical forumla to determine the indency of a bust line in the British Tabloid 'The Sun' on 12/6. It's really just an excuse to print pics of Britney Spears and other 'endowed' celebrities, but it is a good example of the bullcrap appears credible when you throw some numbers at it. Here's the link: How to tell if the boobline is too low... use this equation 0=NP(20C+B)/75

There is an excellent critique of the story at badscience.net:  read more »

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