Statistical Rituals: The Replication Delusion and How We Got There
Publish or perish, the null ritual, improper incentives, the inference revolution, illusions of certainty, statistical power… Gerd Gigerenzer looks back […]
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Publish or perish, the null ritual, improper incentives, the inference revolution, illusions of certainty, statistical power… Gerd Gigerenzer looks back […]
The Food and Drug Administration’s recent approval of new Alzheimer’s drugs sparked a flicker of hope for the millions affected by this […]
There has been a commonly held belief that there was nothing one could do to prevent Alzheimer’s. Dr. Dale Bredesen […]
A neuroscience image sleuth finds signs of fabrication in scores of Alzheimer’s articles, threatening a reigning theory of the disease
Earlier this month, the 2022 Nobel Physics Laureate Dr. John Clauser slammed the ‘climate emergency’ narrative as a “dangerous corruption of science […]
Former editor of The BMJ says, “It’s interesting to me in a way that journals are still alive, because I […]
Science, once a beacon of objectivity, has become marred by corruption and misuse. At BSI, we are on a mission […]
Emily: Welcome to the Broken Science Podcast where we consider what happens when predictive value is replaced by consensus in […]
William Briggs builds upon Greg Glassman’s Castro Ranch talk introducing The Broken Science Initiative. Briggs emphasizes that his critique is not aimed at all types of science, but rather at the growing prevalence of broken and bad science. Briggs highlights two especially impactful examples of broken science, namely the COVID “panic” and climate change. Using these examples, Briggs demonstrates how reliance on flawed models and blind trust in “the science” has lead to severe political and social ramifications for everyone.
The article of the week from the first podcast newsletter for the BSI Podcast.