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Tag Archives: science
Trouble Walking Down The Hallway
Williams and Ceci just released National Hiring Experiments Reveal 2:1 Faculty Preference For Women On STEM Tenure Track, showing a strong bias in favor of women in STEM hiring. I’ve previously argued something like this was probably the case, so … Continue reading
Debunked And Well-Refuted
I. As usual, I was insufficiently pessimistic. I infer this from The Federalist‘s article on campus rape: A new report on sexual assault released today by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) officially puts to bed the bogus statistic that … Continue reading
Beware The Man Of One Study
Aquinas famously said: beware the man of one book. I would add: beware the man of one study. For example, take medical research. Suppose a certain drug is weakly effective against a certain disease. After a few years, a bunch … Continue reading
Book Review and Highlights: Quantum Computing Since Democritus
People sometimes confuse me with Scott Aaronson because of our similar-sounding names. I encourage this, because Scott Aaronson is awesome and it can only improve my reputation to be confused with him. But in the end, I am not Scott … Continue reading
How Common Are Science Failures?
After a brief spurt of debate over the claim that “97% of relevant published papers support anthropogenic climate change”, I think the picture has mostly settled to an agreement that – although we can contest the methodology of that particular … Continue reading
Utopian Science
I. Pre-emptive plagiarism is the worst. I was all set to write about how I thought the problems I brought up in The Control Group Is Out Of Control could be addressed. Then Josh Haas wrote A Modest Proposal To … Continue reading
The Control Group Is Out Of Control
I. Allan Crossman calls parapsychology the control group for science. That is, in let’s say a drug testing experiment, you give some people the drug and they recover. That doesn’t tell you much until you give some other people who … Continue reading
Based on your findings, which theory about alien thickness seems most valid or most accurate?
Seventh-grade science students with flexible ethics: you’ve come to the right place! Every so often I look at the search terms that led people to this blog. Most of them are what you would expect, but one of the top … Continue reading
Science & Medicine Links for August
Case report from the BMJ that would also make a good Twilight Zone episode: Woman hallucinates ghost children. Husband takes pictures of scene to try to prove that there’s nobody there. Woman sees exact same hallucinations in the photographs. Woman … Continue reading
Holocaust Good For You, Research Finds, But Frequent Taunting Causes Cancer In Rats
A study published this month in PLoS One finds that victims of weight discrimination (“fat-shaming”, in case you only speak Tumblrese) are more likely to subsequently gain weight. It’s hard for me to like a study that so obviously got … Continue reading