Research
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Prepare for This Study on the Misuse of Science on LGBT Issues to Be Misused
Acknowledging the ambiguity in research is hardly debunking myths.
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Are People Confused About What the Label 'Transgender' Signifies?
Measuring the number of LGBT Americans is a challenge.
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Not All Polls Are Created Equal (Some Are Badly Written)
The first in a series of dispatches from PollsterCon
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Apparently Everyone Now Agrees Science Is Badly Broken
Research is afflicted with pervasive confirmation bias that is massively yielding false positives
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Don't Blame Food Companies for What You Feed Your Kids
Parents feed babies candy, soda, and chips. What does this have to do with the industry?
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5 Quick Facts About the Gender Pay Gap
Do women still earn just 79 percent of every dollar men make? A look at what's really going on with the gender wage gap
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Here's a Federal Program That Actually Does Prevent Foodborne Illnesses
It's based on research and sharing information, not on more regulations.
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Bill Gates Expects an 'Energy Miracle' in Next 15 Years
"World will discover a clean energy breakthrough that will save our planet and power our world."
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Is Social Science Politically Biased?, Asks Michael Shermer in Scientific American
Surely as scientists, liberals are able to maintain their dispassionate objectivity
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USDA School Lunch Problems Continue
New research paints a rosy picture of the program. But is the picture telling the whole story?
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Stunning Rejection of Scientific Values of Transparency and Skepticism at New England Journal of Medicine
Outside researchers might "even use the data to try to disprove what the original investigators had posited."
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Government Roadblock: Feds Should Just Get Out of the Way of Self-Driving Vehicles
"All government needs to do for the next transportation revolution [is to] get out of the road."
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Biomedical Study Reproducibility Scandalously Bad, Evidence for "Free Will," and Robot Rebellion by 2055
A scitech research and policy round up for January 5, 2016
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A War on Climate Change?
We are supposed trust government technocrats - what could possibly go wrong?
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Fixing Liberal Bias Will Improve Academic Research
Trying to turn back the herd of independent minds.
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People Who Watch Porn Hold More Feminist Views
Study shows greater support for gender equality among men and women who watch adult films.
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Meet the Man Helping Police Officers Get Away with Shootings
A psychology professor testifies that there’s pretty much always a good reason.
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Most Preclinical Life Science Research Is Irreproducible Bunk
$28 billion in research funding wasted every year.
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Uncle Sam's Expanded Marijuana Menu
A new list of offerings suggests the government's cannabis monopoly is suddenly aiming to please.
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Socially Engineering Food Choices Doesn't Work
To say that Los Angeles merely failed would be putting it mildly.