Years ago we reported on a woman (fat, ugly) who wanted to "marry" "Sky Scream, a rollercoaster at Holiday Park in Hassloch, Germany." She was in love with it, says…

All uses of hypothesis testing are fallacies. The results could be true, or likely, but only accidentally. A proof based on the Resurrection and GPA. Bonus Song Anon sent in…

Pity me. I just had a paper rejected because, as one reviewer said, "Although your cure for cancer seems genuine, and would likely help people suffering from that dread disease,…

Guffaw is not a word met on the street, but is seen in books and other literary matter, and until last week I had never heard anybody say it. I…

Dartmouth President Sian Leah Beilock reacted to the Trump Administration's Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education by saying the university would accept no new grant money, that professors would…

Time (sigh) for yet another example of the scrofulous, not to say ubiquitous, Epidemiologist Fallacy. This is peer-reviewed-paper generating technique of declaring X CAUSES Y, but where X is never…

How do you like my New & Improved title style? Is it click-baity (or is it baitey) enough? I was also thinking of Attack From Space Nearly Downs Aircraft. The…