Psychology Today, which has been to psychology woo what Huffington Post is to medical woo, ironically has an astute columnist calling out the shoddy research methods we have been ridiculing in psychology for years.Dr. Karen Franklin notes that while the Diederik Stapel incident is the latest, it isn't isolated. Racism in baseball umpires, ESP, if there has been a popular tripe study...
read morePsychology Today, which has been to psychology woo what Huffington Post is to medical woo, ironically has an astute columnist calling out the shoddy research methods we have been ridiculing in psychology for years.Dr. Karen Franklin notes that while the Diederik Stapel incident is the latest, it isn't isolated. Racism in baseball umpires, ESP, if there has been a popular tripe study...
read moreI have said too many times to count we should not be subsidizing failed, inefficient technology like solar cells. As with the ethanol fetish of the 2000s, solar energy has been spearheaded by a government leader who surrounded himself with scientific true believers rather than objective scientists who would look critically at claims. The billions wasted on keeping inefficient technology...
read moreSo People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals doesn't like Super Mario. Really, I don't either. Wasn't he the bad guy in Donkey Kong? Donkey Kong was the name of the game, after all, and the big primate only steals Pauline because Mario was a mean jerk to him. How did he suddenly become a good guy? Oh, that was 30 years ago?I am trapped in the past, just like PETA....
read moreLike any bureaucracy, the Post Office, once created, never wanted to be un-created. In that light, they have tried to come up with creative ideas to keep their union employees on the payroll – like taxing emails and taking the revenue – but it hasn’t worked very well. The Post Office has long claimed they were not benefiting from the government because they get no government...
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