James Lee, authors of many GWAS studies wrote a piece in 2022 entitled Don't even go there saying that NIH is increasingly censorious regarding data access. Since it is short, I…
I think most people are unfamiliar with how the scientific publication and prestige system works. It works like this: Scientists submit papers to journals for publication. This means they start…
Back in February, Nathan Cofnas wrote an influential piece A Guide for the Hereditarian Revolution, in which he wrote: The prospect of a hereditarian revolution strikes some people as inconceivable…
You have probably heard of that outlier Iowa poll that gave a surprisingly large advantage to Harris in the 2024 election. Related to this is that is what forecasters call…
This is a nerdy post of little interest to the layman. There's this old paper that sometimes comes up: Dana, J., & Dawes, R. M. (2004). The superiority of simple…