The peer-reviewed paper is "Is pregnancy a disease? A normative approach" by Ann Smajdor and Joona Räsänen in BMJ's Journal of Medical Ethics. (Incidentally, for new readers, I always emphasize…

There is a sharp difference between undead and slimy science. The latter is identified with ease. Take this slice of slime from the paper "Exploring together the emotional impact of…

I have been critical of the theory of Official Mis- and Official Disinformation, given that they necessarily imply the existence of Official Truths (see blog/Substack). As I have long said,…

Our latest misuse of statistics producing midwit science is found in the peer-reviewed paper "State-level anti-transgender laws increase past-year suicide attempts among transgender and non-binary young people in the USA"…

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…

Hallucinogenics are back, baby. Maybe you know them by their cool name psychedelics. They're not back in the wild and weird and often destructive 60s way, but in the more…