Today a paper which proves my contention that governments ought to get out of the grant-making business. The "study" was funded by NIH, and conducted by "top" scientists at Harvard.…

Here's the panicky headline: "Long periods of extreme heat can accelerate biological age, scientists say". Longer periods of extreme heat has been found to accelerate biological age in older adults…

I remind you, yet again, that all models only say what they are told to say. A bland truism. Unless you forget it. Let's now look at two "climate change"…

My joy is great. And growing: I responded on Twitter (follow me): "You might not know it, but this is a MAJOR VICTORY of outstanding proportions. Overhead is what fed…

Two ladies, both involved in legal academia, have written an astonishing paper in the Journal of Criminology. They insist lawyers for the defense should be called "guilt deniers", and that…

Warning! Do not hit thumb with hammer. Warning! Do not drink this bottle of cement-cleaning acid. Warning! The hot coffee is hot. Warning! Everything you see, touch, taste, small, or…

Way, way back I ran a quarter-hearted contest for the Worst Science of the Year. Keeping up with the tsunami of dreck flowing out of academia proved impossible, however. Worse,…

Since it is a slow week, I was thinking about variations on Rupert Sheldrake's idea of morphic resonance, and how these might apply to an Aristotelian philosophy of nature. You…