Sociologists and psychologists know how to get attention - make a crazy claim based on correlations in population data or surveys of college students, use terms like factor analysis and p-value and statistical significance, and it will get into a journal. Since mainstream media love weak observational studies over science, it will be in the New York Times post-haste.So we have been treated to...
read moreAlchemy, which most people have at least heard of, along the lines of 'the quest to turn lead into gold', is getting rehabilitated. In one paper, anyway.Alchemy, like chemistry, had 'chem' at its core. Chem derives from Khem ('black land'), which was the name for what we call Egypt, due to the dark alluvial soil provided by the flooding Nile each year. Egypt was well known to Greeks and Romans...
read moreDuring the last few years, if you had a renewable energy idea, Germany embraced it. They already have a lot of protests about science - food, cell phones - and the time was right to say goodbye to nuclear protests as well.So they trotted out "studies" showing a 20 percent return on wind power and solar and said those businesses just needed a boost in the short term. And people bought the...
read moreA recent survey of Hispanic women in metropolitan Detroit found that they were twice as likely to list vulvar pain as white women. Sure, they may be on the path to vulvodynia, which affects around 8 million women, or it could be that Hispanic men are just huge, while black guys get the benefit of […]
read moreA recent survey of Hispanic women in metropolitan Detroit found that they were twice as likely to list vulvar pain as white women. Sure, they may be on the path to vulvodynia, which affects around 8 million women, or it could be that Hispanic men are just huge, while black guys get the benefit of […]
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