As reader Nate Winchester surmised, today, the biggest I Told You So Yet. Headline: “MRI software bugs could upend years of research: This is what your brain looks like on bad data“. […]
Cluster Failure: Biggest ‘I Told You So’ Yet. fMRI Stinks
On The Severe (And Unrecognized) Limitations Of fMRI
So this 44-year-old Frenchman—let’s call him Jacques—presented for a “mild left leg weakness“. The leg bone being connected to the hip bone, etc., it was eventually discovered that Jacques’s “skull was filled […]
Classic Posts
Classic Articles There is over ten years worth of material on the blog on wide-ranging subjects. First stop is the category drop-down menu, to the right on large screens and at the […]
Our Brains Are Not Us: Review of Brainwashed
My nomination for Worst Use of Inference in a Scientific Paper (2009) is “The neural correlates of religious and nonreligious belief” by brain scientist cum philosopher Sam Harris and colleagues. It is […]
fMRI Discovers Freud, Distribution Plushies Lurking In Brain
Regular readers will know my opinion on fMRI research. Nothing but newfangled electronic phrenologic theory-discovering machines. Well, I take it all back. Yes, the new paper “A Triple Dissociation of Neural Systems […]
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