0016 - Reproducing Evidence but Not god
Sqeaky and Mako open up about their histories with religion and share their stories leaving faith. They also discuss how to experts reproduce evidence and determine whether or not they are just guessing.
Read the transcript and see the sources in the show notes: https://dysevidentia.transistor.fm/episodes/reproducing-evidence-but-not-god
- SOURCE [2:18] 63~77% of religious people oppose abortion depending on race and specifcs, 82% of religiously unnaffilated support choice - https://www.pewforum.org/fact-sheet/public-opinion-on-abortion/
- SOURCE [3:56] Most pregnancies end in miscarriages - https://www.sciencealert.com/meta-analysis-finds-majority-of-human-pregnancies-end-in-miscarriage-biorxiv
- SOURCE [4:31] Feeding the babies once born is pretty popular in the USA, but half of republican want to defund it - https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/05/26/few-americans-support-cuts-to-most-government-programs-including-medicaid/
- SOURCE [5:57] Brief summary of the Texas abortion ban and obvious holes in the anti-rape plan - https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2021/09/07/gov-abbott-claims-texas-will-eliminate-rapists-in-defending-abortion-ban/?sh=6bf9ad14593e
- SOURCE [6:50] Early Abduction Story From the Hills - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_and_Betty_Hill
- SOURCE [7:33] How many stars? - https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Herschel/How_many_stars_are_there_in_the_Universe
- SOURCE [7:33] UCSB Science Line disagrees with - http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=3775#:~:text=The%20number%20of%20stars%20in,stars%20in%20the%20observable%20universe!
- SOURCE [7:56] Remdesivir recovery study - https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2007764
- SOURCE [11:09] Podcaster Joe Rogan Reveals COVID-19 Diagnosis, Ivermectin Treatment - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a33oJ7_Qjt4
- SOURCE [11:44] Georgia cop pushing ivermectin dies - https://www.rawstory.com/ivermectin-dewormer-horses
- SOURCE [12:09] Stories exaggerated about Gunshot victim waiting is in ER for horse dewormer ODs - https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/gunshot-victims-horse-dewormer-ivermectin-oklahoma-hospitals-covid-1220608/
- SOURCE [14:10] The WHO is tracking a new COVID-19 variant called Mu - https://www.insider.com/who-is-tracking-covid-19-mu-variant-evade-vaccine-immunity-2021-9
- SOURCE [14:30] Wiki page for the Mu variant - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Mu_variant
- SOURCE [15:58] Reddit finally takes action on covid misinformation - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/reddit-bans-r-nonewnormal-and-quarantines-54-covid-denial-subreddits/
- SOURCE [17:36] An ongoing list of public antivaxxer who died - https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/
- SOURCE [19:10] Damien Marie Athope - https://damienmarieathope.com/
- SOURCE [30:49] Scathing Atheist how theists use words - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=095F4oMqs68
- SOURCE [30:49] Scathing Atheist how theists invoke god - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey5lCXaPTD4
- SOURCE [36:28] We discussed Last-Thursdayism and falsifiability in Episode 15 - https://dysevidentia.transistor.fm/episodes/0015-the-limits-of-evidence
- SOURCE [41:06] LAPD fail to reproduce accurate explosive numbers - https://la.streetsblog.org/2021/08/11/anatomy-of-an-officer-involved-explosion-a-post-mortem-on-lapds-e-27th-street-fireworks-blast/
- SOURCE [42:43] NHTSA National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on seat belt effectiveness - https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/seat-belts
- SOURCE [46:17] Three Statistical Tests Every Game Developer Should Know - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl9V0U2SGeI
- SOURCE [46:17] T Test explained - https://towardsdatascience.com/the-statistical-analysis-t-test-explained-for-beginners-and-experts-fd0e358bbb62
- SOURCE [46:55] 1 in 20 chance is not enough to be certain, but it hints at further exploration - https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/882:_Significant
- SOURCE [47:48] The “Impossible Drive” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EmDrive
- SOURCE [53:42] - Reproducibility/Retesting is a critical part of the Scientific Method - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method#Elements_of_the_scientific_meth