To Understand Current Science, Learn This Word
September 17, 2025
It has several synonyms, but the word appears very often in science news.
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Statistical Significance: An Abused Standard
August 8, 2025
The pursuit of statistical significance incentivizes gaming the system for fame.
Much Ado About Microevolution
March 31, 2025
A bragging scientist fools himself about finding natural selection in lizards.
Big Science Reveals Dirty Laundry
February 18, 2025
Before giving obeisance to Big Science, citizens should examine the books.
Reproducibility Debunked as a Myth
October 17, 2023
Human choice about what data to focus on biases results, says major study.
More Proof that the Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Fake
May 10, 2023
Only an ignorant person would use the Dunning-Kruger Effect to shame you, says a mathematician.
Scientific Uncertainty Is Cosmic in Scope
November 30, 2022
Different researchers can use the same data to reach opposite conclusions. This contributes to a crisis of confidence in science.
Major Evolutionary Analysis Tool Discredited
September 2, 2022
A widely-used tool, relied on in hundreds of thousands of studies, has been exposed as fundamentally flawed.
Character Flaws Give Big Science Woes
November 13, 2021
The days when science journals could be trusted have become clouded. Maybe the sun never shined anyway.
How to Turn Dunning-Kruger Inside Out
September 25, 2021
The Dunning-Kruger Effect is supposed to prove that ignorant people are the most confident. It's fake news.
Don’t Follow the (Bad) Science
August 17, 2021
The literature of science is littered with retracted papers, lies, bias, embarrassments and bad ideas that refuse to die.
Psychotherapy Is Useless
August 3, 2021
For treating borderline personality disorder, doing nothing is cheaper than paying a psychotherapist and likely to be just as successful.
Trusting Science Is Not the Same as Critical Thinking
July 27, 2021
Experiments with participants given fake science show that those who "trust science" can be gullible.
Science Capitulates to Leftism
May 22, 2021
Finding any science journal or science reporter who takes a conservative position is hopeless now.