Scientists should be allowed to recommend their own peer reviewers
Leo Tiokhin has a post up arguing the opposite of the title of my post. His argument is that a number of studies find that reviewers suggested by authors provide…
Leo Tiokhin has a post up arguing the opposite of the title of my post. His argument is that a number of studies find that reviewers suggested by authors provide…
And I am not talking about COVID vaccines! I am talking about this far more intriguing paper: Miller, N. Z., & Goldman, G. S. (2011). Infant mortality rates regressed against…
You might be familiar with stuff like this: How heavy use of social media is linked to mental illness, The Economist, 2018 Looking over the chart a bit, we find…
I had a fun chat with Alexandra Kaschuta, a very unusual Romanian woman. Hope you enjoy! I chat to rogue researcher Emil Kirkegaard about the fraught intersection between intelligence research…
The Flynn effect is famously the result that IQ scores seem to keep going up. That is, at least, they did so from 1917 until 2010 or so (when decline…
So the cool kids are talking about vaccine effectiveness, and the problems of estimating this. The simple starting point is to take government statistics about deaths or hospitalized cases or…
Recently, the fashionable word to refer to a certain class of talking or writing heads is wordcel. A play on wordy and incel, if we take it from Urban Dictionary…
The ever-funny Richard Hanania has published his first book: Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy: How Generals, Weapons Manufacturers, and Foreign Governments Shape American Foreign Policy. You…
For some months, I've had a window open with some lead poisoning studies by economists. We know generally not to trust economist work without carefully checking out their tables and…
So you've probably seen the midwit meme about COVID vaccine skepticism: The data given to back this one up is this survey: Now you might be tempted to question some…