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Category Archives: Science
The Science Advice Goddess: Amy Alkon and the Scientizing of American Advice Writing
Amy Alkon (b. 1964) fuses the confessional intimacy of the newspaper advice column with the explanatory ambitions of behavioral science. The public knows her as “The Advice Goddess” (a name she created on the spot after selling her first syndicated … Continue reading
The Case For Positional Release
In 1955, an osteopathic physician named Lawrence Jones stumbled onto something that would eventually challenge the dominant logic of manual therapy. A patient with a severe back spasm had failed to improve under any standard treatment. Jones found him in … Continue reading
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NYT: His Harvard Lab Was Thriving. Then Came the Cuts.
Jenna Russell writes: Will Mair, who studies aging, lost almost all his research funds when the White House cracked down on Harvard. He was wholly unprepared for the upheaval that followed…. In October, he traveled to Malta to lead a … Continue reading
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Decoding The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
Gemini says: In the framework of Alliance Theory, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) represents a “protected tier” of the scientific establishment. While Nature and Science are independent gatekeepers, PNAS is the internal house organ of the … Continue reading
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Decoding Nature
Gemini says: In the framework of Alliance Theory, the journal Nature is not just a repository for data; it is the ultimate coordination point for the global scientific alliance. Prestige journals like Nature act as “high-status tags” that allow scientists … Continue reading
Science vs Law
Gemini says: To the American Psychological Association (APA), dueling experts are not a feature designed for profit, but rather an unavoidable friction point between two different systems: the scientific method (which seeks consensus) and the adversarial legal system (which seeks … Continue reading
Trump Vs Big Science
Heather Mac Donald writes: The claim that the Trump administration might push the NSF [National Science Foundation] to fund research with an “ideological bent” was rich. The NSF has been supporting ideologically driven research for years, much of it through … Continue reading
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Our System Often Rewards BS Rather Than Truth
Columbia University statistics professor Andrew Gelman blogs (here is my collection of his related posts): Last year we discussed the problem of scientists who host podcasts in which they credulously and uncritically interview celebrity scientists who are promoting junk science. … Continue reading
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L. J. Henderson, Practice, and the Harvard View of Science by Stephen P. Turner & Lawrence Nichols
ChatGPT gave me the highlights of this recent essay: Turner and Nichols’s piece on L. J. Henderson is juicy for your project. It cuts right to the themes we’ve been tracking about expertise, authority, and the social construction of “what … Continue reading
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Expertise in Complex Organizations
Stephen Turner writes in the 2023 book, The Oxford Handbook of Expertise and Democratic Politics: Science is sometimes thought to be a self – correcting system: replication and the fact that other scientists must rely on the previous and related … Continue reading
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