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		<title>STAB Stops</title>
		<link>http://softestpawn.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/stab-stops/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Military cutbacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Territorial Army]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://softestpawn.wordpress.com/?p=613</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Edited from Arrse:
&#8220;STAB stabbing OK. STAB stops. Unload. Make STAB Ready. STAB stabbing OK. STAB stops. Unload. Wait 17 years&#8230;&#8230; 
STAB fails to load. On closer inspection, TA appears to be shagged. Return STAB to stores until the country unfucks itself.&#8220;
I had rather naively assumed that the reason my TA (Territorial Army) unit had cut [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softestpawn.wordpress.com&blog=3850189&post=613&subd=softestpawn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fool on 4</title>
		<link>http://softestpawn.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/fool-on-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>softestpawn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[File on 4 from the BBC have an episode on military procurement: &#8220;Gerry Northam asks why it seems so hard to buy the right equipment for our forces.&#8221;
Now there are many many problems with the UK military&#8217;s procurement process, and I hope to do a series on it, but this BBC &#8216;investigation&#8217; completely failed to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softestpawn.wordpress.com&blog=3850189&post=586&subd=softestpawn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When there is no evidence</title>
		<link>http://softestpawn.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/noevidence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Evidence Based Beliefs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evidence of Lack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lack of Evidence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lost Reading Glasses]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://softestpawn.wordpress.com/?p=458</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[or &#8220;Now where did I leave my glasses?&#8221;
An engineer, a mathematician and a physicist look out of a window of a train passing through the highlands of Scotland, and see a black sheep. 
&#8220;Ah!&#8221;, says the engineer, &#8220;Look, they have sheep in Scotland!&#8221;.  
The physicist looks at it and reflects &#8220;Well, we can say [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softestpawn.wordpress.com&blog=3850189&post=458&subd=softestpawn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Equality Mistrust</title>
		<link>http://softestpawn.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/the-equality-mistrust/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>softestpawn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environmentalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inequality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Inequality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Equality Trust]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Inequality within a society, we are sold, results in all sorts of Bad Things such as more and greater violence, poorer health, and more alcohol problems.
At first sight this would seem a bit odd. Marginal, subsistance societies where everyone is equally and awfully poor have infamously low life expectancy and high infant mortality rates. As [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softestpawn.wordpress.com&blog=3850189&post=486&subd=softestpawn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Humans Don&#8217;t Do Science</title>
		<link>http://softestpawn.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/humans-dont-do-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>softestpawn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scientific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scientists]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://softestpawn.wordpress.com/?p=496</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Science&#8221;, we are frequently and rightly told, relies on being open about what it is doing and how, on welcoming informed criticism, on being willing to drop discredited ideas, on experimenting to test theories to try and break them, and generally progresses by proving existing ideas are not (quite) correct. 
(This assumes a modern somewhat [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softestpawn.wordpress.com&blog=3850189&post=496&subd=softestpawn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cautiously Approaching the Precautionary Approach</title>
		<link>http://softestpawn.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/cautiously-approaching-the-precautionary-approach/</link>
		<comments>http://softestpawn.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/cautiously-approaching-the-precautionary-approach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>softestpawn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environmentalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Metadebates]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[precautionary approach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Precautionary Principle]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://softestpawn.wordpress.com/?p=279</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Following a post about the appalling Precautionary Principle, some folks said I was a bit harsh and that I had constructed an extreme version of it that it was never meant to be. 
I&#8217;ve not been given an alternative definition, but all the same let&#8217;s have a look at a softer &#8216;Precautionary Approach&#8217;. In this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softestpawn.wordpress.com&blog=3850189&post=279&subd=softestpawn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CO2 vs Temperature</title>
		<link>http://softestpawn.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/co2-vs-temperature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>softestpawn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environmentalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[CO2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global temperature]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://softestpawn.wordpress.com/?p=348</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The idea that CO2 levels force temperature changes are key to the claims of global warmers.  This post looks at how CO2 changes match temperature changes in the records. 
Correlation
There are lots of ways to find out how well two sets of values correlate, and a relatively simple way is to plot one against [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softestpawn.wordpress.com&blog=3850189&post=348&subd=softestpawn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Simon Singh: Libel vs Fact</title>
		<link>http://softestpawn.wordpress.com/2009/08/02/simon-singh-libel-vs-fact/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>softestpawn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://softestpawn.wordpress.com/?p=427</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of very clever people out there already closely watching the rather dubious activities of the alternative medicine crowd, so I tend to leave that subject alone.
Occasionally though there&#8217;s an opportunity to use the subversive power of even occasionally visited sites like this to Do Good.
Simon Singh wrote an article on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softestpawn.wordpress.com&blog=3850189&post=427&subd=softestpawn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Deferring to Authority</title>
		<link>http://softestpawn.wordpress.com/2009/08/01/deferring-to-authority/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>softestpawn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Evidence Based Beliefs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Deferring to Authority&#8221; is to claim someone&#8217;s opinion is valuable because they are an expert in the subject. &#8220;Arguing from Authority&#8221; is to claim that your opinion is valuable because you are an expert.
This is one in a series of posts about evidence and how it does or does not support a claim. Although this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softestpawn.wordpress.com&blog=3850189&post=403&subd=softestpawn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oh no, not the Hockey Stick again</title>
		<link>http://softestpawn.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/oh-no-not-the-hocky-stick-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>softestpawn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environmentalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;Hockey Stick controversy&#8221; centers around a graph published by a Dr Michael Mann. It showed how temperatures had remained fairly steady, until mankind started burning lots of coal and oil after which the globe heated alarmingly:

Because the world is mostly American, it&#8217;s an ice hockey stick rather than a real field hockey stick. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softestpawn.wordpress.com&blog=3850189&post=374&subd=softestpawn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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