Ending the IRB nightmare
Suppose you are running a company that has a website. You are wondering whether marketing campaign A or B works best. Which one do you go with? Why not both?…
The indoctrination effect of universities: overstated
Dictionaries define indoctrination as: the act of indoctrinating, or teaching or inculcating a doctrine, principle, or ideology, especially one with a specific point of view (dictionary.com) the process of repeating…
Noah Carl crowdfunding online
As you probably know, Noah Carl was attacked by the Red Guards at his Cambridge job. Eventually, the college ended up firing him after months of harassment. This firing is…
Sources of bias in science (comments on Tara McCarthy interview 2017/09/11)
This is a follow-up summary of my new interview with Tara McCarthy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXOeiKbhJqM The problems Science is a broad cluster of methods and practices used to discover patterns in nature…
Predatory journals
I had my first Twitter controversy. So: https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/515857830524768256 https://twitter.com/rogierK/status/516162369350008832 I pointed out in the reply to this, that they don't actually charge that much normally. The comparison is here. The…
Review: Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction
I had low expectations for this book. It was assigned for some humanities class im taking (Studium generale). However, the book is a quite decent introduction to the field. Happily…
Review: Bad Pharma
https://www.goodreads.com/book/similar/19171192-bad-pharma-how-drug-companies-mislead-doctors-and-harm-patients http://lib.free-college.org/view.php?id=864114 Having already read Peter Gøtzsche's Dødelig medicin og organiseret kriminalitet: Hvordan medicinalindustrien har korrumperet sundhedsvæsenet. Art People, 2013, this book did not bring so much new. However,…
Review: Making sense of heritability
Download: http://www.libgen.net/search.php?search_type=magic&search_text=making+sense+of+heritability&submit=Dig+for This is a GREAT book, which goes down to the basics about heritability and the various claims people have made against it. Highly recommended. Best book of…
Review: Beyond the Hoax: Science and Culture (Alan Sokal)
beyond the hoax - alan sokal Much of the material is the same as in Sokal and Bricmont's earlier book. But there is some new material as well. I especially…
Why Open Access is a moral imperative
i hav riten about it befor, but here is som mor i came acros. Found via: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130117/03040821712/scientist-explains-why-putting-research-behind-paywall-is-immoral.shtml For general public: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2013/jan/17/open-access-publishing-science-paywall-immoral http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=417576&c=1 http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jul/15/free-access-british-scientific-research Background material for the curious: Blog series:…