I’m ninety percent sure, that Misarti must be nonsense. Looking at their graphs they measure trace elements in soil at concentrations up to 10^9 ppb, i.e. purity. Read the rest of this entry »
Articles to 2011-06-17
June 17th, 2011Articles to 2011-06-09
June 9th, 2011Subbotsky and Quinteros are not particularly convincing. Their main result seems to be the different behaviour in the low-risk condition. Psychologists seem to assume, all their subjects are stupid. Read the rest of this entry »
Articles to 2011-06-03
June 3rd, 2011In Lorenz the real result is a significant improvement of the collective estimate under social feedback, which is the opposite of what the title and wording in the report imply. By taking group diversity as an estimate of the residual error, it grows relative to that estimate, Read the rest of this entry »
Articles to 2011-05-26
May 26th, 2011Carrier seems totally irrelevant. Sexual selection always leads to dimorphism and humans are not optimised for standing but for long distance running. Read the rest of this entry »
Articles to 2011-05-19
May 19th, 2011According to Johnstone the much vaunted Teamfähigkeit can lead to arbitrariness in decisions, if there’s too much of it around. Some people need to put the subject at hand above their standing amongst their peers.
Kean reminds me of Feynman again. Read the rest of this entry »
Articles to 2011-05-13
May 13th, 2011The results by Duckworth are not really unexpected. Insofar it’s surprising, that to my knowledge this question has not been asked before. Read the rest of this entry »
Articles to 2011-05-06
May 6th, 2011Erickson, especially the comment by Coen, Lawlor, and Kenny, is a gross example of wishful thinking distorting the reporting of results that did not come out as expected. Read the rest of this entry »
Articles to 2011-04-28
April 28th, 2011A quiet week. Last week science arrived twice, this week not at all again.
Here’s the link to this week’s complete list.
Hetzartikel und Lügengeschichten 25 Jahre nach Chernobyl
April 28th, 2011Eigentlich ist meine Reaktion irrational. Ich sollte mich freuen, heute nicht Artikel der gut qualifizierten und kompetenten Journalisten aus der DDR kritisch zwischen den Zeilen lesen zu müssen, sondern die überaus plumpen Lügen der westlichen Cretins auf den ersten Blick erkennen zu können. Tatsächlich aber ärgere ich mich und fühle mich von der Journaille, die offenbar ihre Leserschaft nicht für wert befindet, sich für sie beim Lügen besondere Mühe zu geben, persönlich beleidigt.
Der vollständige Beitrag steht unter “Unwahrheiten, Verfälschungen und Lügen”.
Articles to 2011-04-22
April 23rd, 2011The Indus civilization did not live along the Indus after all, according to Lawler.
Gioia and Fessler have important safety implications for children and young adults. Read the rest of this entry »
