Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
psychology / science / sociology
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Maybe the reproducibility crisis is a publicity crisis instead.
The replication crisis may be a publicity crisis.
science / sociology
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Conservatives Ironically Get Angry At Science (That Isn’t Really) Suggesting Conservatives Are Angry
There’s a thing that’s pissing Conservatives off today from the University of Cincinnati: an article entitled “People Become More Economically Conservative When Angered“. Let’s just examine the irony here […]
politics / science / sociology
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Whoops – seems like another gun ownership meme really IS wrong, after all.
I saw this a few days ago on imgur, so I wasn’t surprised to see it show up on Facebook. At which point I was surprised to see […]
science
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When accuracy doesn't matter
I recently read the Alternate View from Analog Magzine’s Nov 2009 issue “Lessons from the Lab” by Jeffery Kooistra. In it, he points out that a survey of […]
rant / science / science fiction / society
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The Singularity
Here’s a couple of key points that often get glossed over in popular depictions of the Singularity: You are reading this, therefore you are not relevant in a […]