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…

Ladies and gentlemen---and you, too, Hagfish---I present to you Science! In the form of the picture that heads today's post. This delightful children's drawing, presumably winning the Special Needs Science…

I have loathed Tim Walz since the covid panic. He embraced hersterical models, and used the excuse they were The Science to grab power. Briefly, in May 2020, as you'll…

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"…