Publication Bias
from Olivia Goldhill at Quartz, Many scientific “truths” are, in fact, false: For example, there’s massive academic pressure to publish in journals, and these journals tend to publish exciting studies...
View ArticleWhen Ideas Start Having Sex
The internet gave rise to Google and Facebook. The iPhone gave rise to Uber. The ideologies are important only to the extent that they facilitated ideas. Our current development is less dependent on...
View ArticleImposing Moral Supremacy
from Jeff Jacoby at the Boston Globe, Healey’s Exxon witch-hunt: As a citizen and a politician, Healey is fully entitled to condemn fossil fuels, decry global warming, and express scorn for those who...
View ArticleThe True Anti-Intellectuals
Jeff Jacoby at The Boston Globe writes a wonderful piece to start the year, What experts predict, reality will contradict “I think that you listen too much to the soldiers,” wrote the British...
View ArticleThe March Against Science
How Progressives Cherry-Pick Science They Like from Mona Charen at National Review Science, however, to be respected, must be purely the search for truth. The organizers of this “March for Science” —...
View ArticleThe Media Disease
from The New Yorker, EVERYBODY’S AN EXPERT by Louis Menand Tetlock also found that specialists are not significantly more reliable than non-specialists in guessing what is going to happen in the region...
View ArticlePal Review
This is the consequence of political consensus ruling over scientific inquiry. Scientific objectivity is thwarted by intellectual McCarthyism. Dissent is demonized, careers are destroyed. It is more...
View ArticleThe Excitement Bias
"We saw that the bias in psychological research is in favour of publishing exciting results. An exciting result in psychology is one that tells us that something has a large effect on people’s...
View ArticleThe Ignorance of Experts
Science begins with guessing and then proceeds to proof. Scientists is a susceptible to cognitive biases as any human and must work to overcome them. Separating the cranks from the visionaries requires...
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