How could I have forgotten the transdimensional monsters?

Do go through to read the pieces by Coyne in full, they are very good, and quite merciless. (I am proud to say that the issue of depression massively lowering fitness occurred to me immediately as the chief problem, but I didn't blog about it.)

In which Denny Borsboom and friends take their turn bashing their heads against the wall.

The key part is the observation that there is NO POWER to detect reasonably-sized deviations from random walks in only forty years' of data.

I forget how I wound up here, but it's well worth reading --- especially when you get to the flogging-of-dubious-products bit.

It sounds like a bunch of warblogger scientists.

Dear God.

"We now have data claiming that there is no difference in the quality of controlled clinical weight loss trials whether they are funded by industry or independently. The senior author on this comparative study is the very same person who was relieved of his responsibilities as head of a national obesity society because he wrote a letter opposing calorie labeling without disclosing that he was paid to do it".

When oh when will people learn not to confuse self-reports --- especially self-reports about sex, especially self-reports from sub-populations selected for bragging and lying! --- with reality?

"Despite what these articles in the Guardian and New York Times say, neuroscience has yet to show that directly measuring brain function predicts sales or advertising success better than existing methods."

The astonishing news is that territorial ethnic conflict requires the geographic proximity of (self-perceived) ethnic groups, and is rare in locales where one group is an overwhelming majority. The attention paid here seems due to a computational version

Evisceration, as promised. Thanks to Matthew Berryman for pointing out this free PDF version.

Krugman articulates something I've long thought, that technological progress has been much slower since 1950 than in 1850--1950; the Singularity has _happened_.

I am really a bad person for finding this funny. Sheldrake is a quack, but doesn't deserve to be stabbed by crazy people. But I can't help grinning. I am a bad person.

Gaaaaaaaaaargh.

I love this phrase.

"a key producer at the big hedge fund, demanded that the young trader take female hormone pills to help erase his aggressive male ways so he could be more effeminate in his trading style…."

" focusing on individual failings ignores the fact that all of the people involved -- scientists and journalists and executives and rent-a-weasels -- are responding to the normal economic and psychological forces within their diverse subcultures, which in

Many of these apply to any discipline using lots of simulations...