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Rates of Scientific Fraud Retractions
Ivan Oransky on his Retraction Watch blog pointed to a paper by R. Grant Steen looking at numbers of retraction and whether they were due to fraud or error. Ivan pointed to a news item on The Great Beyond by … Continue reading
(Ice) Hockey Pool, Week 6
Most of you can look away, either because you’re not involved in the Hockey Pool Cath Ennis set up, or because you’re below Cath in the standings.
Posted in Silliness
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Could Libel Law Stop Science?
So, this week some of us wrote about the problems of English (and Welsh) libel law. At the same time, a couple of new incidents of scientists falling foul of the libel laws were given publicity in the British press. … Continue reading
Posted in The Society of Science
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Why Libel Needs to be Reformed
This week is the first anniversary of the report Free Speech is Not for Sale, which highlighted the oppressive nature of English libel law. In short, the law is extremely hostile to writers, while being unreasonably friendly towards powerful corporations … Continue reading
Posted in Silliness, The Society of Science
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World Statistics Day Today
The UN has declared that today is World Statistics Day. For some strange reason they’re more interested in Official Statistics, like GPD, and rates of unemployment rather than the interesting stuff to do with estimating the variation in weights of … Continue reading
Posted in Statistics
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Scientia Pro Publica 41: the IgNobel Edition
41? I always fall short when getting to the answer.
Posted in Science Blogging
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Scientia Pro Publica TOMORROW
I’ve been horribly remiss in advertising Scientia and other carnivals recently, but this one I can’t avoid. Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People) will return to a weekly schedule (we’re getting enough submissions that every 2 weeks is a … Continue reading
Posted in Science Blogging
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Am I wasting my time?
Physicists have it easy. When they’re not talking about stuffing their hands into their equipment, they’re measuring their fundamental constants to 38 significant figures. Chemists too have a simple time – they get to make stinks and bangs with expensive … Continue reading
Posted in Research Blogging
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More Sea Ice
This is just too beautiful. From DenialDepot, my favourite climate denialism site (browse their archives to see what I mean), we get this graph, which is elegant in its use of detail.
Posted in Science Blogging, Silliness
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The Pain of Being a Statistician
I’m been meaning to write something non-trivial, but until then here’s something to entertain you. I’ve not had experiences this bad, and most of my collaborators are really good about discussing things, but sometimes…
Posted in Silliness
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