Good news and bad news. Good news it that there is a growing number of people who are aware that p-values are sinking science and they want to do something,…

I am only about two years behind on my emails. Every email folks send me is worthy of a full post, but obviously I am so far behind I'll never…

Theodore Dalrymple in City Journal reviewing Paul Hollander's From Benito Mussolini to Hugo Chavez: Intellectuals and a Century of Political Hero Worship said (a long but necessary quotation; the emphasis…

Here's the abstract from the peer-reviewed (so you know everything in it must be true and sworn to by every rational human being now and forever) paper "A volatile discourse…

This post originally ran 3 November 2014. Reader Professor Doctor Moritz Heene writes: I read your post on CIs with great interest, especially this one: https://www.wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=11862, see "Thinner is better":…

Niggling complaint number one. Big name journals are printing more telegraphic papers than ever before, leaving the meat to ill-edited, hard-to-navigate "supplementary" material. It's a way to get in under…