You can check out my takedown yesterday of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) at American Greatness. But here’s something else. As of 2019, there were only 17 operational CCS projects in the world. Guess how much CO2 they store?
Day: February 13, 2020
The BMJ’s ‘Trust Us’ Statistics — With a Relative Risk of 1.0018!
Anyone knowledgeable about epidemiology was appalled when, in 1992, EPA labeled secondhand smoke as a carcinogen based on a relative risk of 1.19 — well within the noise range of statistical correlations and essentially a no-correlation finding. Now the British Medical Journal has published a study trying to link ozone in outdoor air with premature mortality based on a relative risk of 1.0018. That is shocking enough, but check out the BMJ’s ‘trust us’ guarantee.
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