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I fell out of love with academia
Sabine Hossenfelder today posted a new video on youtube which everyone in theoretical physics should watch...
Randomization in such studies is arguably a negative in practice
Dean Eckles sent me an email with subject line, “Another Perry Preschool paper . . .”...
A living replacement knee to be tested in clinical trials within five years
A team of researchers from Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) and Columbia Engineering has been...
The Bayesian Cringe (2021)
I used this expression the other day in Lauren’s seminar and she told me she’d never...
20 Years of "Not Even Wrong"
The first entry on this blog was 20 years ago yesterday, first substantive one was 20...
Relating t-statistics and the relative width of confidence intervals
How much does a statistically significant estimate tell us quantitatively? If you have an estimate that’s...
Refuted papers continue to be cited more than failed replications:can search eng
Paul von Hippel writes: Stuart Buck noticed your recent post on A WestLaw for Science. This...
The immediate victims of the con would rather act as if the con never happened
Dorothy Bishop has the story about “a chemistry lab in CNRS-Université Sorbonne Paris Nord”: More than...
Clarke's Law, and who's to blame for bad science reporting
Lizzie blamed the news media for a horrible bit of news reporting on the ridiculous claim...
