There's a few main types of broad-side science criticism: Lowbrow religiously motivated typically focused on denial of biology (evolution) but sometimes expanding widely Verbal tilt philosophy, usually some brand of…
For months, some journalist called Ashley Smart has been emailing me for quotes for some upcoming hit piece. E.g., back form January: Hi Emil, I'm a journalist with Undark Magazine, and…
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…
Bo Winegard has a thread on this piece here. I didn't know about it at the time of writing. Boomer woman journalist Cathy Young has a new piece out: The…
So why trust science? I would say I am a proud supporter of scientism, crude versions aside. Naomi Oreskes is a prominent science historian who mostly writes history books attacking…
In Making sense of Heritability (2005), Sesardić wrote: On the less obvious side, a nasty campaign against H could have the unintended effect of strengthening H [hereditarianism] epistemically, and making…
Eysenck, H. J. (1995). Genius: The natural history of creativity (Vol. 12). Cambridge University Press. The book is on LibGen I continue my Eysenck readings with his popular genius book…
I am posting this because this is not widely known, but I think this angle should be taken more seriously. I hope philosophers will read this and get inspired! Urbach,…
Pearl, J., & Mackenzie, D. (2018). The book of why: the new science of cause and effect. Basic Books. This is an interesting but annoying book. The basic pattern of…
Kathryn Paige Harden is professor of psychology who belongs to the Turkheimerian 'left psychometrics' school. I've discussed the odd behavior of Eric Turkheimer before, but since then I found a…