We Were Wrong To Panic About Secondhand Smoke
A recent American Cancer Society study reports a negligible risk from passive smoking, shedding new light on the uproar over a 2003 paper.
Confirmation bias
Incompetent People Are Often Too Incompetent To Realize Just How Incompetent They Are, Says New Study
The less people know about a scientific issue, the more confident they are that they are right.
Violent Video Games Don't Make Players More Violent IRL
New study trashes crappy consensus correlating gaming violence and aggression in real life
'Extreme opponents of genetically modified foods know the least but think they know the most'
Title of the Nature Human Behavior article cited above sadly says it all.
Why We Need Ideology
Niskanen Center President Jerry Taylor argues that we should reject libertarianism and other ideologies in favor of "moderation." But, in truth, we cannot and should not abjure ideology. Trying to do so is likely to increase bias, not curb it.
Merchants of Environmentalist Doubt*
Contrary to activist claims, the popular herbicide glyphosate does not cause cancer in people, says a new study.
Overcoming Confirmation Bias on Guns
Confirmation bias is one of the great obstacles to making the practical case for liberty.
You Are Ignorant, But Not Necessarily Dumb.
A review of The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone
Climate Change, Scientism, and the Politics of Certitude
New York Times columnist notes the uncertainties in climate science; progressives want him fired.
NOAA Climate Change Data Manipulation Charge: Scandal or Nothing to See Here?
Settled science and confirmation bias all the way down
Georgia Tech Climatologist Judith Curry Resigns over 'the CRAZINESS in the field of climate science.'
She is a prominent critic of the "consensus" that man-made climate change is an impending catastrophe
Hurricane Matthew and the Politics of Climate Change
Everybody please just stop politicizing the weather
Actively Open-Minded Thinking vs. Science Curiosity on Climate Change: New at Reason
Liberal and conservative "science curious" people are less polarized over scientific issues
Actively Open-Minded Thinking About Climate Change
It's not really all that open-minded. Science curious people on the other hand ...
Most Research Results Are Wrong or Useless: New at Reason
"Science, the pride of modernity, our one source of objective knowledge, is in deep trouble."
Global Warming Prediction 30 Years Later: How Is It Faring?
If you preach to choir, at least try to be fair in your sermon.
Does Facebook Suppress Conservative News Outlets and Topics?
Ex-staffers of the social media behemoth claim stories written by and about conservatives are deliberately kept from "Trending."
Apparently Everyone Now Agrees Science Is Badly Broken
Research is afflicted with pervasive confirmation bias that is massively yielding false positives
Confirmation Bias and the Science of Psychology
Psychology and the rest of science would benefit from some focused research on the problem of confirmation bias
Is Social Science Politically Biased?, Asks Michael Shermer in Scientific American
Surely as scientists, liberals are able to maintain their dispassionate objectivity
Fixing Liberal Bias Will Improve Academic Research
Trying to turn back the herd of independent minds.
Liberals Better Than Conservatives Again, Says New Study on Who's Happier
I am just happy to be a libertarian.
Congressional Democrats Climate Change Investigation: Witchhunt or McCarthyism?
Progressives launch smear campaign against climate researchers they dislike
Both Liberals and Conservatives Can Have Science Bias, Says New Study
Another shocking result from social science!
Temperature Record Chicanery: An Overhyped Scandal
The real scandal is climate model failure
Are Republicans or Democrats More Anti-Science?
Comparing the scientific ignorance of our mainstream parties
A Trick of the Mind
Looking for patterns in life and then infusing them with meaning, from alien intervention to federal conspiracy.
Climate Change and Confirmation Bias
A new study suggests that your values, not science, determine your views about climate change.
