If this isn't the dumbest science ever, it's close. The peer-reviewed paper is "The effect of temperature on language complexity: Evidence from seven million parliamentary speeches" by Risto Conte Keivabu…

In my long studied career of insolence and rough defense of Reality, not to mention my general constitutive abrasiveness---I was "born that way"---I have been called every variety of choice…

The news, considered marvelous to some because it seems to confirm how good MRIs are at uncovering secrets of the brain, is that MRIs can predict "sexual orientation" with 92%…

A perpetual staple of statistical shenanigans are "studies" comparing one heterogeneous population with other, or with many other heterogeneous populations, where the researcher picks out one item among the myriad…

Scientists chase after fads as much, and maybe even more, than anybody else. We have seen this numberless times, "climate change" and covid being the two most prominent examples. Every…

Did you know, dear reader, that not every person in the world believes in the Everettian (many worlds) multiverse? Shocked, aren't you. Maybe even outraged, our favorite emotion. I know…