This originally appeared at Jaap's blog, and is presented lightly edited here. He and I have looked at several of the "forever chemical" papers and, so far anyway, have found…

One thing I didn't take precaution against was my own stupidity. A marvelous and constant, menacing thing you would think that, if anybody, I would have been ready for. You…

A doctor, a physician, has decided that the drug Profital™ if taken prophylactically will prevent the Screaming Willies most of the time, and that the drug's side effects won't scar…

The title is lifted from an email I received, one of many asking me to look into the paper "A calibration of nucleic acid (PCR) by antibody (IgG) tests in…

The scheduler has been busted, and is not sending emails out on time. I only just now noticed this post. My apologies. Cover your ears, ladies. I'm about to let…

I beg your indulgence, dear reader. Please stay with me for these introductory paragraphs. I want to teach you how to read these papers so that you are well equipped…

The title today is identical to the peer-reviewed paper of the same name in Theory and Society by BVE Hyde. Hyde begins: "This study begins by outlining the transparency paradox:…