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Ten Years of Retraction Watch

Retraction Watch is a watchdog organization that monitors scientific misconduct and, well, watches the retraction of scientific articles. Not only is their work very thorough…

28. October 202028. October 2020
Categories Environment

How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled

NPR’s Planet Money recently released an episode where they tell the story of how big plastic companies convinced the public to recycle more. At that…

21. October 202021. October 2020
Categories R, Society, Politics and History, Statistics

Gender Differences Among Top Performers in Chess

Chess is (unfortunately) a man’s world, and gender differences in chess are large. While the gap in average play is not large between men and…

17. October 202017. October 2020
Categories Technology

Big if True: Nuclear Fusion

The NY Times reports about Sparc, a nuclear fusion reactor designed by the private company Comonwealth Fusion Systems. The reactor design is called Tokamak and…

5. October 202030. October 2020
Categories Economics

Data is Not the New Oil

I have argued before and linked to articles suggesting that advertising is less useful than is commonly thought and that targeted advertising is largely ineffective….

30. September 202030. September 2020
Categories Economics

The Economics of Interstellar Trade

In 1978 economist Paul Krugman wrote a paper titled The Theory of Interstellar Trade that was published in 2010. It is pure genius: while the…

28. September 202029. September 2020
Categories Health

More Evidence for Vitamin D and Covid

Vitamin D has been among the supplements researchers suggested may be helpful against Covid-19 for a long time. Now we have the results from a…

24. September 202024. September 2020
Categories Society, Politics and History

Debate Motions I Would Have Liked to Set

Over the last years I spent a lot of time doing competitive debating. As part of that hobby, I also served as Chief Adjudicator (CA)…

21. September 202021. September 2020
Categories Society, Politics and History

A First Step Towards Getting Rid of Universities

Universities are a weird thing. The vast majority of things you learn are either completely irrelevant or quickly forgotten. This is of course not true…

18. September 202018. September 2020
Categories Society, Politics and History

In Support of Super-Rich Philanthropy

The Guardian published an article titled “How philanthropy benefits the super-rich”. And parts of it are making me really really angry. I have seen similar…

15. September 202025. September 2020

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