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Category Archives: Science
The History Of Lab Leaks & Infectious Disease & the New Temptations of Science (6-25-21)
00:00 Chris Hayes Podcast With Zeynep Tufekci, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=349sWvIpElA 29:00 Marc Shapiro on women spiritual leaders, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7M-JbB4LIk 40:00 Neterui Karta in America, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Ber_Beck 41:40 International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Conference_to_Review_the_Global_Vision_of_the_Holocaust 49:00 Beyond the Academic Ethic by … Continue reading
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The Changing Temptations Of Science
Stephen Turner published in 2020: The idea of science as a spontaneous order produced by autonomous individuals following their best hunches, the core of the liberal theory of science, became less an accurate description than an expression of nostalgic regret. … Continue reading
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LSU spent nearly $1 million on legal fight over firing of coastal researcher Ivor van Heerden
Philosopher Stephen Turner wrote: “A court case after the Katrina disaster gives some indication of the power of the state to coerce consensus. An obscure engineering researcher at Louisiana State University criticized the Army Corps of Engineers, which was responsible … Continue reading
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The Scientific Revolution
From the London Review of Books: * For the great majority of people, believing in the truths of science is unavoidably an act of faith. Most of us neither witness the successful experiments nor would be able to understand them … Continue reading
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Figureheads, ghost-writers and pseudonymous quant bloggers: The recent evolution of authorship in science publishing
According to Wikipedia: “Bruce Graham Charlton is a retired British medical doctor and was Visiting Professor of Theoretical Medicine at the University of Buckingham.[1] Until April 2019, he was Reader in Evolutionary Psychiatry at Newcastle University.[2] Charlton was editor of … Continue reading
The Scientific Method
Jessica Riskin writes: * Here, then, is the answer to when, where, and how “the scientific method” originated: not in any field or practice of science, but in the popular, professional, industrial, and commercial exploitation of its authority. This exploitation … Continue reading
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Scientific Racism
James Thompson writes: “Scientific Racism” is an oxymoron. The truth cannot be racist, and lies cannot be science. If you say something truthful about a racial difference then that is true, not a lie, and not racism. If you say … Continue reading
Andrew Gelman: Beyond “power pose”: Using replication failures and a better understanding of data collection and analysis to do better science
Andrew Gelman writes: A bunch of people pointed me to a New York Times article by Susan Dominus about Amy Cuddy, the psychology researcher and Ted-talk star famous for the following claim (made in a paper written with Dana Carney … Continue reading
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Steve Sailer: ‘How Andrew Gelman Hurt the Feelings of the Power Posing Lady’
Steve Sailer writes: I’ve written a lot over the years about the Replication Crisis in the social sciences as academics attempt to emulate Malcolm Gladwell’s success on the corporate conference circuit. The New York Times Magazine offers a long sympathetic … Continue reading
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