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June 7, 2021

STEM and Stuff

Bruce Brasington

When historians and students confront the past and seek meaning for our present, we challenge with pietas the toxic pride that STEM and “Business English” are all we need.

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June 7, 2021

Can Science be Saved?

John E. Staddon

A review essay of "Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth" by Stuart Ritchie.

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June 7, 2021

The Behaviorist Plot

John E. Staddon

If historians of science present a distorted picture, they imperil the future of science, a future on which modern civilization depends.

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June 7, 2021

Fact Checking Is Needed in Science Also

Henry H. Bauer

On matters of public importance, “science” needs to be fact-checked and adjudicated by a Science Court.

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February 25, 2021

The Minjung Millenarianism of Bandy X. Lee

Bruce Gilley

In declaring President Trump mentally unfit to hold public office and a “mass killer,” Yale Psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee violated the American Psychiatric Association’s Principles of Me......

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February 25, 2021

History of Science: Politicizing a Discipline

John E. Staddon

In the first article of our feature critiquing the experts, psychobiologist John Staddon comes to a troubling conclusion. While science earns credibility by submitting evidence to numerous universally......

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July 2, 2020

Should Science be More Scientific?

David Randall

There is a correlation between the increase of funding and fraud—financial incentives weaken the barriers of self-discipline and dedication in science. 

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July 2, 2020

In Humans, Sex is Binary and Immutable

Georgi K. Marinov

The idea that there are more than two sexes in human beings is a rejection of everything biological science has taught us. Unbelievably, this idea is coming directly from within the highest ranks of a......

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July 2, 2020

The Case for Carbon Dioxide

John Staddon and Peter Morcombe

The case that carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are largely determined by human activity, contribute heavily to the earth’s warming, and that this warming portends catastrophic consequence......

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July 2, 2020

Down the Memory Hole: Evidence on Educational Testing

Richard P. Phelps

When the existence of previously conducted research makes funding harder to come by and favored policy goals less salient, it can disappear.

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