I have a horrible feeling sometimes that heavily promoted crap research on space aliens, cold showers, mind-body healing, schoolyard evolutionary psychology, extra-sensory perception, magic golf balls, air rage, himmicanes, subliminal smiley faces, etc etc etc, has softened the ground so that the seeds of more evil trees could then be planted and take root.

Dale Lehman sends an email with subject line “A new low in science”: I watched part of the painful hearing and here is a story on it. It is a new low in both statistical studies, policymakers reactions, and public … Continue reading → …