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Various compromises that have occurred between Bayesian and non-Bayesian methods are reviewed. (A citation is provided that discusses the inevitability of compromises within the Bayesian approach.) One example deals with the masses of elementary particles, but no knowledge of physics will be assumed. KEY WORDS: Bayesians, animals as informal; Fine structure constant, relativistic; Hierarchical Bayes; Inexactification; Maximum Likelihood, type II; P values, standardized., 1. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND Some forms of compromise between Bayesian and non-Bayesian statistics date back perhaps to Laplace, but the concept of such a compromise seems to have been not fully [...]

Chappell (Apeiron 6, 251-253, 1999; in short 6, 251) correctly implies that the last word on record, on a given topic, is often given too much weight. This is especially [...]

When I wrote my 'closing argument' (Ref. 1), I intended to abandon my debate with Xu, but I don't want people to think I'm bonkers. On page 121, column i, [...]

There is one comment by Xu Shaozhi, or Xu for short (Apeiron 6, no. 3-4 which I will abbreviate to 6, 3-4), with which I heartily agree,--intellectual differences about science [...]

Mooney (1999) starts with the two sentences: Newton's Law of Gravity [Gravitation] involves a contradiction. On the one hand it states that gravity is dependent upon the mass of bodies [...]

Xu or Xu & Xu and I have interchanged arguments about the self-consistency of the Lorentz transformation. But it might confuse the reader when we 'speak at the same time': [...]

In this communication, I will again nag Campbell to nobly admit to error without beating about the bush. He claimed (Campbell, 1996) that a 'stationary' rod of length L, pointing [...]

Introduction Readers of Apeiron know that Xu(s) believe(s) the usual 'Lorentz transformation,' LT, to be self-contradictory whereas I am confident that their arguments are fallacious. See the items mentioning Apeiron [...]

1. I now continue my debate with Xu & Xu. See Xu & Xu (1997a, b) or Xu & Xu (a, b) and Good (1997a). They believe that the special [...]

Shaozhi & Xiangqun (1997) produce three arguments to support their expression 'Fairwell Relativity'. I will explain here why their first argument is not entirely fair, and why their other two [...]

Campbell (1996) considers a rod L (or segment) on a long straight line (O', O'), and two observers at O' and O' moving relative to the rod with equal velocities [...]

Walton (1996) says 'The assumption that v' = -v ... is responsible for the paradox that, if we put ct' = ct(1 -v/c) and ct = ct'(1 + v/c); ct [...]

Phipps (1997) asks why do clock rates (in the special theory of relativity, STR) lack group properties? One could reply with the question why should they? But velocities form a [...]

Consider the Lorentz transformation in its familiar form in 2 + 1 dimensions, between the coordinates of an event in an inertial system to those in another such system, (1) [...]

The probability that a spousal murderer was also a batterer is 0.9. This probability is derived from assuming that a representative batterer is one who commits an average of one assault per year. The probability of being murdered is 1/10,000 in the US where the number of murders is 25,000 out of a population of 250,000,000. Around a quarter of the victims are women reducing the probability of being murdered to 1/20,000 for women. The derivation of the probability that a batterer is the murderer is discussed.