Some High-Value Targets for Sander Greenland in 2018
A couple of years ago, Sander Greenland and I had an interesting exchange on Deborah Mayo’s website. I tweaked Sander for his practice of calling out defense expert witnesses for statistical errors,...
View ArticleCounter Cancel Culture – The NAS Conference on Irreproducibility
“The meaning of the world is the separation of wish and fact.” Kurt Gödel Back in October 2019, David Randall, the Director of Research, of the National Association of Scholars, contacted me to ask...
View ArticleACGIH TLVs Lack Scientific Integrity & Transparency – The Mica NIC
The American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH®) is a non-profit corporation established in 1938, to advance occupational and environmental health. The corporation’s motto,...
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Is Your Daubert Motion Racist?
In this week’s New York Magazine, Jonathan Chait points out there is now a vibrant anti-racism consulting industry that exists to help white (or White?) people to recognize the extent to which their...
View ArticleThe Knowledge Remedy Proposal
Alexandra D. Lahav is the Ellen Ash Peters Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law. This year’s symposium issue of the Texas Law Review has published Professor Lahav’s article,...
View ArticlePernicious Probabilities in the Supreme Court
Based upon Plato’s attribution,[1] philosophers credit pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus, who was in his prime about 500 B.C., for the oracular observation that πάντα χωρεῖ και οὐδε ν μένει, or in...
View ArticleLarding Up the Literature
Another bio-medical journal? In October 2019, The Journal of Scientific Practice and Integrity published its inaugural volume one, number one issue, online. This journal purports to cover scientific...
View ArticleScientists Suing Scientists, and Behaving Badly
In his 1994 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, the Hungarian born chemist George Andrew Olah acknowledged an aspect of science that rarely is noted in popular discussions: “[One] way of dealing with errors...
View ArticleWhen the American Medical Association Woke Up
“You are more than entitled not to know what the word ‘performative’ means. It is a new word and an ugly word, and perhaps it does not mean anything very much. But at any rate there is one thing in its...
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The Rise of Agnothology as Conspiracy Theory
A few egregious articles in the biomedical literature have begun to endorse explicitly asymmetrical standards for inferring causation in the context of environmental or occupational exposures. Very...
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