The problems with popular internet heuristics such as “Hanlon’s razor,” “steelmanning,” and “Godwin’s law,” all of which kind of fall apart in the presence of actual malice, actual bad ideas, and actual Nazis.

From my review of Dan Davies’s book on business fraud: Fraud might be an unusual “tail risk” in business, but in science it’s usual. It happens all the time. Just in my own career, I had a colleague who plagiarized; … Continue reading → …