From the Wall Street Journal comes the headline: "Retailers Expect Gloomy Holiday." Problem is, I have read the entire article---these kinds of stories seem to appear earlier and earlier every…

Take a look at his picture: This is from an article by "The Numbers Guy" Carl Bialik at the Wall Street Journal. The story is about how life expectancy calculators…

I use the word "random" in the sense that you did not know what topics I would select today. And I use the word know in its logical sense. On…

If you follow radio, you will know that Don Imus was fired last year for his hip hop-inspired "nappy-headed hos" comment. For this quip, he was cast outside the gate…

The way peer review works is broken, according to a new finding by John Ioannidis and colleagues in their article "Why Current Publication Practices May Distort Science". The authors liken…

I am wrong about a lot of things (see my essay "Let them Fail"), and it is a truism to say that I might be wrong about this, but I…