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Feminist Physics Begets Feminist Glaciology
Remember when we talked about feminist physics a couple of months back? We discovered that the term meant not studying how things move, but thinking about how we feel about…
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Is Truth And Evidence In Medicine Fascist? Update: Yes.
See what you think of this peer-reviewed paper by Dave Holmes in the International Journal of Evidence Based Healthcare called "Deconstructing the evidence-based discourse in health sciences: truth, power and…
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Angry Ovulating Women, Women Angry At Ovulation
Well, here's the headline: "How women can tell when other females are ovulating using clues in their face - and how they may then try to hide their partners from…
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Stream: Dice Games Prove Evolution Because Humans Believed In Punitive Gods?
Today's post is at the Stream: Dice Games Prove Evolution Because Humans Believed In Punitive Gods? Answer this question: could you, by counting the number of coins some guy puts…
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What Happens If You Take Away Women’s Birth Control?
The titular question is in earnest, dear reader, just as it was for Amanda J. Stevenson and four others. Yes, those fine academics were just as perplexed as you probably…
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Science Confirms Astrology! Plus, Machine Learning, Big Data, And Causes
Health signs The alternate title to today's post, suggested by reader Kip Hansen, is "Data scientists find connections between birth month and health". Don't scoff. We're talking peer review and…
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The Four Errors in Mann et al’s “The Likelihood of Recent Record Warmth”
Michael E. Mann and four others published the peer-reviewed paper "The Likelihood of Recent Record Warmth" in Nature: Scientific Reports (DOI: 10.1038/srep19831). I shall call this authors of this paper…
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Scientists Hint That Water Perhaps Might Possibly Be Good For Kids
When I was a kid they had these things called drinking fountains in public places. Schools had 'em, too. They stood about yea-high. You'd push a button and water would…