Three new books on the doom out this past week, one bad, two good. The bad, the very, very bad, outsells the good ten to one. Let’s start at the bottom. American […]
Cluster Failure: Biggest ‘I Told You So’ Yet. fMRI Stinks
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“. […]
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 […]
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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