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Contrary to Braun et al.‘s headline there are no magnetic monopoles, only dipoles of seriously distorted geometry. While the first were a sensation, the second is, to my mind, a case of “so what?” The rest of this week’s stuff speaks for itself.
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One thing climate models have agreed about from the beginning, is that if anything winters ought to warm more than summers. Wahl et al. claim to have found the opposite but only Read the rest of this entry »
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Cahill and Ingalhalikar finally offer proof that women’s and men’s brains really are different. This adds a question Hazari et al. did not even consider: Are male and female interests genuinely different so that inequal numbers in different subjects are not a problem in need of being solved?
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In Birney and Prüfer several high quality genomes of Denisovans and Neanderthals from the Middle Palaeolithic have produced signs of high rates of inbreeding. From all the Upper Palaeolithic we do not yet have a single genome of a quality to address this question (Raghavan). Read the rest of this entry »
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Previous analyses of archaeological finds and experimental results by e.g. Craddock (1999) and Rovira (2003) have shown that copper smelting in a poorly reducing atmosphere – presumably chosen on purpose to exclude iron – also prevents the reduction and inclusion of tin, leaving it in the slag. Read the rest of this entry »
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McNulty et al. is the purest and most blatant piece of Cargo Cult I’ve ever seen, including draft undergraduate essays. There isn’t a single table (except for secondary data in the supplement), results are scattered throughout the text. The single figure is pure fraud. Points and errors shown have nothing whatsoever to do with data Read the rest of this entry »
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The widespread antibiotics abuse already claims 23 000 casualties every year in America – real casualties with names and documented causes of death, not phantoms from statistical fraud like passive smoking and similar chimeras. Read the rest of this entry »
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What Bissell seems to imply is that, if a result published as a general feature for a certain kind of cells turns out only to be valid for one single proprietary cell line as used in the authors’ laboratory, a failure of replication is meaningless, because with the identical, original cells it can be replicated even if with no others. Read the rest of this entry »
