by Henry Oliner | Jun 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
From Leighton Woodhouse at Substack, The New Clerisy: At every such juncture, we’ve been admonished to “believe the science.” But this is not science; it’s politics. Science demands a reflexive posture of skepticism toward received wisdom, tempered by trust in...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 15, 2020 | Science, Social
From Unheard, Why We Stopped Trusting Experts: Ritchie’s section on bias also includes a clear account of some technical elements of statistical reasoning, failures to adhere to which are Ritchie classes as “analytic biases.” These biases include things like only...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 24, 2016 | Global Warming
a gem from George Will in National Review, The ‘Settled’ Consensus du Jour excerpts: Four core tenets of progressivism are: First, history has a destination. Second, progressives uniquely discern it. (Barack Obama frequently declares things to be on or opposed to “the...
by Henry Oliner | Mar 17, 2016 | Science
from Olivia Goldhill at Quartz, Many scientific “truths” are, in fact, false: For example, there’s massive academic pressure to publish in journals, and these journals tend to publish exciting studies that show strong results. “Journals favor novelty, originality, and...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 25, 2016 | Politics
an excellent and thorough piece- What is “Science” from the blog The Arts Mechanical- it is rich with references and worth reading all the links embedded in the article. That’s the problem with corrupting science by using it to drive an agenda. That’s...
