Stream: Hoax Shows Limits of Scientific Journals So the Neuroskeptic, a blogger for Discover magazine, submitted a nonsense paper to several journals, some of which accepted and even published it.…

Good news and bad news. Good news it that there is a growing number of people who are aware that p-values are sinking science and they want to do something,…

I am only about two years behind on my emails. Every email folks send me is worthy of a full post, but obviously I am so far behind I'll never…

Theodore Dalrymple in City Journal reviewing Paul Hollander's From Benito Mussolini to Hugo Chavez: Intellectuals and a Century of Political Hero Worship said (a long but necessary quotation; the emphasis…

Stream: The Latest Inanity: Science Can Measure Which Speech is Violent If academic psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett is right, we should be able to find the precise combination of words…

Here's the abstract from the peer-reviewed (so you know everything in it must be true and sworn to by every rational human being now and forever) paper "A volatile discourse…