WattsUpWithThat hypes itself with most discredited web metric (hits!) and keeps smearing scientists while demanding others "dial back the rhetoric" - The NYT's Virginia Heffernan now "regrets" being duped by Watts

As long as Anthony Watts keeps a website "hits" counter on his sidebar and keeps bragging that his hits are evidence of his blog's popularity, that will provide the most irrefutable evidence of his innumeracy and his willful statistical deception.

One thing is very safe to say about any quantitative analysis you see from Anthony Watts:  It is, with high-probability, pure BS.  See, for instance, Wattergate: Tamino debunks "just plain wrong" Anthony Watts.

Worse, Watts has, perhaps more than...