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A conversation with vaccine hesitancy

A conversation with vaccine hesitancy

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2021-06-242021-06-24 by drricky

Excerpted.  [VaccineHesitantFriend]: I completely understand that. We are lucky to be here in the US. And I’m doing my part…

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  • posterity
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Remdesivir Hopes

Remdesivir Hopes

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2020-05-01 by drricky

Remdesivir is an experimental antiviral drug made by the company Gilead. Designed to act against the RNA driven RNA polymerase…

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  • coronavirus
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Visualizing NCAA GPA data

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2018-09-062018-09-07 by drricky

On 5 Sept 2018, the NCAA Research team tweeted out this chart  : It reports the average core high school…

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  • collegiate sports
  • critical thinking
  • data
  • data visualization
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Becoming height neutral

Becoming height neutral

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2018-07-182018-07-18 by drricky

The website Beachvolleyballspace covered the recent FIVB Gstaad Major with an article celebrating the winners, the currently top ranked Canadian…

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Falsifiability

Falsifiability

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2018-06-202018-06-26 by drricky

In an earlier posting on detecting the signs of pseudoscience, I quoted an article which mentions unfalsifiability as a property.…

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  • learning
  • pseudoscience
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Recognizing Sports Pseudoscience

Recognizing Sports Pseudoscience

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2018-06-072018-06-07 by drricky

In a recent discussion with BJ Leroy of USA Volleyball, I encountered a paper by Bailey et al (2018) published…

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  • coaching
  • critical thinking
  • pseudoscience
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Observations on Primary Elections

Observations on Primary Elections

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  • Skepticism
2018-03-062018-03-10 by drricky

Today was one of the election days in Texas. As a primer for the reader who is unfamiliar with the…

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