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Category Archives: Gregory Cochran
Death’s Bookkeeper: Gregory Cochran’s Hero System
Gregory Cochran (b. 1953) works from a house in Albuquerque, far from any department that might claim him. No laboratory. No graduate students wait outside a door with his name on it. The money that paid the mortgage came from … Continue reading
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The Anomaly Hunter: Gregory Cochran and the Limits of Scientific Caution
Gregory Cochran was born in 1953 and trained in physics and mathematics before completing a doctorate in physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His early professional career ran through defense and aerospace research, where he worked on adaptive … Continue reading
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Care Vs Cure
From comments at Greg Cochran’s blog: * It’s a very engineering view of human nature to think that medicine is primarily about combatting disease, and whether what we’re doing actually works. Part of what people want from medical care is … Continue reading
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Greg Cochran Interview Wednesday 7pm CA Time (5-25-18)
MP3. Greg Cochran blogs: “From time to time I have marveled at how the Left has changed over the years – basically, from steel-driving commies to gender-bender commies. Which leads me to wonder what would happen if, via some mechanism … Continue reading
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I Ran So Far Away, I Just Ran (5-7-18)
MP3 Comments: * I’ve been thinking a lot about “the modern world.” It does seem to be inevitable IF you accept that every individual is clawing his way to the top of the reward pile… and that hyper literacy and … Continue reading
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Signal To Noise
Gregory Cochran writes: Can you dismiss an argument because the originator is a bad person? Obviously not. But if the originator lies a lot, or simply doesn’t know jack about anything, the probability that the argument is worth anything can … Continue reading
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Pre-K Is Worthless
Gregory Cochran writes: There was a nice study of pre-K in Tennessee. People applied for pre-K , more than could be accommodated, so some were admitted (randomly) and some were not. Then the kids admitted were compared with the control … Continue reading
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Clever Sillies
Gregory Cochran writes: “I often get the feeling that bright people are particularly susceptible to moderately complicated intellectual scams, like Marx and Freud and foot reflexology.”
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