How Science Really Works
Don’t get me wrong, science does work. Innumerable concepts from insights to inventions have found their way into human experience at depth and scale in our history. Most are trivial…
Shouting at the Wind
This week we read a piece from a frustrated researcher and teacher. One of the regulars at thenewstatictics.com recounted stories from others on finding serious mistakes in published research and…
Cheese Is Addictive as Cocaine – SCIENCE SAYS
There is plenty written in the research literature about bad research. Sometimes that bad work is cited by a number of other researchers, before it gets corrected or retracted (if…