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So we hear a lot about the "anti-science" views of the conservative Right.  The folks who deny evolution to the point of claiming...

The Retraction Penalty: Catastrophe and Consequence in Scientific Teams   Ginger Zhe Jin et al.  NBER Working Paper, October 2013   Ab...

So, a study shows that research on mice is nearly useless , in some areas, for understanding effects on humans.  Or, worse than useless, ac...

IRB should have turned this down; it involves deception. So, froggy took a hand. (Nod to the Blonde)

Bruno Latour (who should have been a porn star, with that name. Far better than the intellectual pornography he sold as scholarship!) is su...

A sad story. Strange in retrospect that we were afraid of them. The Soviets were really best at harming their own citizens.

The Dallas Mavericks have acquired Caron Butler, Brendan Haywood and DeShawn Stevenson from the Wizards . They didn't give up very much....