Brainstorming alone
Most people have had the experience of being forced to do group brainstorming in schools, and various other places. This is supposed to increase creative output, more and better ideas.…
The fire brigade: Ewan Birney to the rescue
https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1265724131112357888 Ewan Birney, "Director of EMBL-EBI with an insatiable love of biology; small research group on genomics research.". He earlier embarrased himself by writing a zero-sources, full of errors pseudoscientific…
Tulsa race riot costs in comparison
So you've seen the pictures of the infamous Tulsa race riot. Wikipedia even has renamed it to "Tulsa race massacre". New York Times has no less than 1250 hits for…
Chemistry journal censors reflection piece because critical of DIE ideology
Retraction Watch has the story, I am merely reposting here for posterity. Tomas Hudlicky. (2020). “Organic synthesis—Where now?” is thirty years old. A reflection on the current state of affairs.…
Intelligent economics: the way forward
Christainsen, Gregory. (2020). Rushton, Jensen, and the Wealth of Nations: Biogeography and Public Policy as Determinants of Economic Growth. Mankind Quarterly. This paper offers a review of some of the…