This is a lovely, lovely book and I can’t believe it has taken me this long to find and read it (November 2005: I was lead to this book via Jaynes, who […]
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How to Exaggerate Your Results: Case study #1
In the Tuesday, 6 November 2007 edition of the Wall Street Journal, Pfizer took out a full-page ad encouraging people to “Ask your doctor” about Lipitor, a drug which claims to lower […]
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The Rationality of Induction: David Stove
Is deductive logic empirical? No. Is inductive logic also empirical? No. Is induction justified and, if so, is it just an extension of logic? Yes. These are Stove’s conclusions as he takes […]
Oh, for a carreau!
I have been playing the game of petanque for several years now. You may have seen its modified Italian form called bocce. Both games are similar, but whereas in bocce the players […]
Worst Science Fiction of All Time
Shoot to kill July 1995 (I wrote this about six or seven years ago and had it posted to my website where I was a graduate student. I thought that it was […]
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