Over the course of the last eleven months, I’ve found a lot of COVID-19 stats out there, but none which provides as much insight and actionable information as the following single spreadsheet. We’ll get right to it, followed by amplifying commentary. To view this full screen in a separate window, click here. The key question […]
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2020 Election Fraud Revisited – WITH EVIDENCE
Todd Starnes asked what his readers thought about the election. Specifically: OPINION: Franklin Graham says he tends to agree with President Trump – that the election was either stolen or rigged. What say you, America? Starnes, T. (December 21, 2020). Franklin Graham: I tend to believe election was rigged or stolen. Retrieved from: https://www.toddstarnes.com/politics/franklin-graham-i-tend-to-believe-election-was-rigged-or-stolen/ My […]
Mark Kelly Pulled an Ooops
The narrative is simple: “Ride along with Captain Mark Kelly as he demonstrates how easy and quick it is to buy a gun with a background check.” Here’s the video: Problem is, it’s a FALSE NARRATIVE. Here’s the REAL narrative: In truth, the gun dealer, Diamondback Police Supply, refused to deliver to Kelly the AR-15, […]
Defeat of the Anti-Maskers
As a friend of mine said, “as a human being, knowing we are in an epidemic, why wouldn’t we try to help slow down the spread of COVID-19?” There’s lies the crux of the problem. The sin of anti-maskers has blinded them. These otherwise good, mostly conservative and mostly patriotic people cannot, for whatever reason, […]
COVID-19: Late June REALITY
The Internet remains chock full of COVID-19 buffoonery, if not bombastic bullshit. An ex-friend was calling for a mask-burning party. He’s got it in his thick, ignorant head that this is all a lie. I’ve tried informing him repeatedly that “stats don’t lie,” but he doesn’t understanding statistics and he’s got a little bit of […]
Fact-Checking PolitiFact
Earlier this evening, I surfed to PolitiFact to ascertain the truthfulness of a comment made by a well-known politician. Along the way, I decided to make a submission of my own. I so doing, I recognized a number of biases at play in the way PolitiFact solicits inputs. Even if all three editors are die-hard, […]
Statistics: Neither “lies” nor “damned lies”
Encountered yet another “lies, damned lies, and statistics” adherent this morning. My response: When you adhere to the rules of statistics, there are no “lies” or “damned lies.” There’s only statistics, which is neither. It’s a mathematical science, similar to the science of calculus, originally called infinitesimal calculus or “the calculus of infinitesimals”, which is […]