Who is more likely to support the death penalty: college undergraduates from a “nationally-ranked Midwestern university with an enrollment of slightly more than 20,000” majoring in social work, or those majoring in […]
Nobel prize in medicine here I come!
From Sense about Science comes Celebrities and Science Review 2008. This article in The Independent explains it in more detail (originally linked on Instapundit). The Sense about Science report looks at the […]
Paper churning
It is a cliche, but it is true, that academics must publish or perish. Papers, and more papers, and more papers still, are what makes for a professorial life. It’s often—it’s very […]
On the growth of government spending: who benefits, the rich or poor?
UPDATE: Reader Stephen Dawson has kindly shown where I made a very stupid error. This error caused me to label the y-axis incorrectly in the third picture below. It also causes the […]
Another reason to leave academia
1. Repeat after me: “There are no innate biological differences between men and women…except, well, women are of course better nurturers, sympathizers, empathizers, and a score of other things.” 2. Now use […]
Greenpeace is shocked–shocked–to discover lobbying going on
There is a belief among certain paranormal researchers—these are the guys who study mind reading, clairvoyance, etc.—that is used to explain why psychic experiments haven’t seen positive results. It is called the […]
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