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Longer: see http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2014/08/09/our-letter-to-the-new-york-times-criticizing-nicholas-wades-book-on-race/]]></description>
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    <link>http://violentmetaphors.com/2014/05/21/nicholas-wade-and-race-building-a-scientific-facade/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>human_genetics racist_idiocy historical_genetics have_read wade.nicholas bad_science_journalism</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bostonreview.net/books-ideas/philip-cohen-nicholas-wade-troublesome-inheritance">
    <title>Don't Trouble Yourself | Boston Review</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-29T11:20:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bostonreview.net/books-ideas/philip-cohen-nicholas-wade-troublesome-inheritance</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>book_reviews human_genetics racist_idiocy human_evolution wade.nicholas bad_science_journalism</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://notfrisco2.com/leones/?p=7808">
    <title>Noli Irritare Leones » The Kindness of Strangers</title>
    <dc:date>2014-06-09T03:02:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://notfrisco2.com/leones/?p=7808</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>book_reviews racism racist_idiocy debunking wade.nicholas bad_science_journalism</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/jun/05/stretch-genes/">
    <title>Stretch Genes by H. Allen Orr | The New York Review of Books</title>
    <dc:date>2014-06-03T18:58:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/jun/05/stretch-genes/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>racism racist_idiocy bad_science_journalism book_reviews wade.nicholas</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/primate-diaries/2014/05/21/on-the-origin-of-white-power/">
    <title>On the Origin of White Power | The Primate Diaries, Scientific American Blog Network</title>
    <dc:date>2014-06-03T18:57:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/primate-diaries/2014/05/21/on-the-origin-of-white-power/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>racism racist_idiocy bad_science_journalism book_reviews wade.nicholas</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/03/nate_silver_climate_change_denial_it_s_time_to_dump_fivethirtyeight_s_roger.html">
    <title>Nate Silver climate change denial: It’s time to dump FiveThirtyEight’s Roger Pielke, Jr.</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-01T02:58:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/03/nate_silver_climate_change_denial_it_s_time_to_dump_fivethirtyeight_s_roger.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>climate_change bad_data_analysis bad_science_journalism bad_science auerbach.david pielke.roger silver.nate why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps disasters</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-I6XTVZXww">
    <title>ASTOUNDING: 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + ... = -1/12 - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2014-02-05T18:58:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-I6XTVZXww</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Oh FFS.  This is just incredibly bad exposition.]]></description>
<dc:subject>mathematics number_theory bad_science_journalism via:probably_better_not_to_say</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://dartthrowingchimp.wordpress.com/2013/08/26/playing-telephone-with-data-science/">
    <title>Playing Telephone with Data Science | Dart-Throwing Chimp</title>
    <dc:date>2013-09-05T03:30:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://dartthrowingchimp.wordpress.com/2013/08/26/playing-telephone-with-data-science/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>bad_science_journalism networked_life epidemiology_of_representations to_teach:data-mining to_teach:undergrad-ADA</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.statschat.org.nz/2012/11/20/avoiding-midlife-uncertainty/">
    <title>Avoiding midlife uncertainty | Stats Chat</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-20T12:22:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.statschat.org.nz/2012/11/20/avoiding-midlife-uncertainty/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Write them for the data, and turn the Kids loose.]]></description>
<dc:subject>bad_data_analysis to_teach:undergrad-ADA primates bad_science_journalism statistics psychology visual_display_of_quantitative_information evisceration my_initial_skeptical_coloration_became_on_examination_a_permanent_stain</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://dabacon.org/pontiff/?p=6470">
    <title>Uncertain on Uncertainty | The Quantum Pontiff</title>
    <dc:date>2012-09-30T16:58:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://dabacon.org/pontiff/?p=6470</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>quantum_mechanics bad_science_journalism</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://jonfwilkins.blogspot.com/2012/09/three-questions-about-jonah-lehrer.html">
    <title>Lost in Transcription: Three questions about Jonah Lehrer</title>
    <dc:date>2012-09-01T18:06:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://jonfwilkins.blogspot.com/2012/09/three-questions-about-jonah-lehrer.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I mean, look, this is a whole lot of crazy behavior. It reminds me of those movies, like Big or 13 Going on 30, where a kid suddenly wakes up in the body of an adult and finds themselves in way over their head. Except instead of teaching all of the other adults around them to reconnect with their inner child, they spin totally out of control and devolve into a murderous, narcissistic pathological liar.
"Maybe sort of like what you would get if you cast Linday Lohan in a mashup of Freaky Friday and Carrie."

- Actually, that last sounds like a great awful idea.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2012/07/20/newsflash-new-york-times-reports-90-year-old-consensus/">
    <title>Newsflash: New York Times Reports 90 Year Old Consensus</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-26T16:53:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2012/07/20/newsflash-new-york-times-reports-90-year-old-consensus/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Several people have been asking me about a recent study in molecular genetics by David Reich, Nick Patterson, Desmond Campbell, et al. (2012) arguing that the initial peopling of the Americas was accomplished through three migration streams, basing their analysis on multiple DNA sites. The results—though richer in their data than earlier research– are not terribly surprising for anyone who has followed the discussion of the peopling of the Americas: There are three genetic groupings, one corresponding to Eskimo-Aleut peoples, one to Athabaskans, and then a residual category for everyone else (whom the authors call “First Americans”) The “First American” category is a geographic cline in Latin America from North to South, with suggestions of three geographically-based subgroupings in Mesoamerica and South America: Mesoamerica, highland South America, and lowland South America.  (A substantial part of the Americas therefore is off their radar.)
"Nicholas Wade’s reported the Reich et al. research in the New York Times (July 11, 2012). Wade treats it as a vindication of a three-way genetic (historical linguistic) distinction among languages of the Americas proposed in Joseph Greenberg’s (1987) book of the same name, although Reich et al. do not cite it in their paper in Nature.  (The only reference to Greenberg by Reich et al. is to a paper coauthored with Turner and Zegura and published in 1986 as one of the proponents of the three-way split.)  The “vindication” here is entirely Wade’s. The bottom line is that this three-way distinction was known linguistically since the 1920s (for example, Sapir 1921). Basically, it’s a division among the Eskimo-Aleut languages, which straddle the Bering Straits even today, the Athabaskan languages (which were discovered to be related to a small Siberian language family only within the last few years, not by Greenberg as Wade suggested), and everything else. That’s essentially the three-way distinction that is constantly credited to Greenberg. We know of many major linguistic families among the “everything else”, worked out painstakingly through well-established methods, but don’t know how the “everything else” language families are connected to each other on a large-scale level."

(This is typical of Wade, who is simply not a reliable writer.)]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://mindhacks.com/2012/06/16/dramatically-titled-neuroscience-story/">
    <title>Dramatically titled neuroscience story « Mind Hacks</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-17T03:02:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mindhacks.com/2012/06/16/dramatically-titled-neuroscience-story/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Question about your life. Introduction to a thematically related tragedy. Promise of hope.
"Over-simplified premise. Mention of a brain part and an inadequately explained technology in the same sentence.
"Dramatic claim of a breakthrough.
"Researcher and affiliation. Description of motivation related to a minor personal detail.
"Overly-technical account of experiment.
"Contrived analogy.
"Rhetorical question?
"Allusion to a controversy.
"Quote from the researcher. Quote from another researcher.
"Caution about over-interpretation. Over-interpretation. Mention of future work.
"Genuinely insightful point.
"Unintentional irony.
"Earnest but misleading conclusion. Optimistic ending."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://jonfwilkins.blogspot.com/2012/05/blue-eyed-people-are-all-related-zombie.html">
    <title>Lost in Transcription: Blue-eyed-people-are-all-related zombie news</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-03T16:22:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://jonfwilkins.blogspot.com/2012/05/blue-eyed-people-are-all-related-zombie.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["So, to recap, 1) Cool paper. 2) Sex between blue-eyed people is not incest. 3) We have no idea when or where this mutation came from, but it is now conceivable that we could ask the question. 4) Embarrassingly bad science reporting spontaneously rises from the grave four years later and tries to eat your brain. "]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3775">
    <title>Language Log » Wright is wrong about sociology as well as basketball</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-17T03:38:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3775</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>cultural_differences experimental_psychology perception bad_science_journalism wright.robert evisceration liberman.mark</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3742">
    <title>Language Log » Phonemic Serial Founder Effect disconfirmed</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-04T16:15:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3742</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Massively-hyped paper trying to model language history using lightly-repurposed biological models comprehensively debunked by very careful and linguistically-informed data analysis.  One of the authors of the debunking shows up in the comments, and says:
"Finally, regarding press; a few news organisations were interested in the initial pitch, but lost interest when they realised that we didn't have a good story here about human origins."]]></description>
<dc:subject>linguistics language_history evolutionary_biology human_genetics evisceration bad_science_journalism</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27497/">
    <title>Mathematicians Reveal Serial Killer's Pattern of Murder  - Technology Review</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-16T15:56:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27497/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>bad_science_journalism utter_stupidity violence via:henry_farrell blogged</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://mindhacks.com/2011/07/18/google-memory-and-the-damp-drawers-olympics/">
    <title>Google, memory and the damp drawers Olympics « Mind Hacks</title>
    <dc:date>2011-07-18T12:20:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mindhacks.com/2011/07/18/google-memory-and-the-damp-drawers-olympics/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["If pant-wetting were a sport, the recent study on how memory adjusts to the constant availability of online information would have launched the damp drawers Olympics.
‘Poor memory? Blame Google’ claimed The Guardian. ‘Internet search engines cause poor memory, scientists claim’ said The Telegraph. ‘Google turning us into forgetful morons’ wibbled The Register.
If you want a good write-up of the study you couldn’t do better than checking out the post on Not Exactly Rocket Science which captures the dry undies fact that although the online availability of the information reduced memory for content, it improved memory for its location.
Conversely, when participants knew that the information was not available online, memory for content improved. In other words, the brain is adjusting memory to make information retrieval more efficient depending on the context..."
]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3114">
    <title>Language Log » “Vampirical” hypotheses</title>
    <dc:date>2011-04-28T11:36:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3114</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Somebody (hopefully not me) really needs to write a book about vampirical hypotheses testing.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>bad_data_analysis bad_science_journalism why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_academic_publishing_system funny:geeky funny:malicious liberman.mark gelman.andrew freese.jeremy</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.slate.com/id/2285355">
    <title>What the New York Times' John Tierney gets wrong about bias and women scientists. - By Alison Gopnik - Slate Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2011-03-18T13:54:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.slate.com/id/2285355</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In this corner, a distinguished experimental psychologist who can actually read a paper in PNAS; in that corner, John Tierney.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>science science_in_society sexism evisceration experimental_psychology bad_science_journalism to:blog why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps gopnik.alison tierney.john</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.wordyard.com/2010/08/30/in-defense-of-links-part-one-nick-carr-hypertext-and-delinkification/">
    <title>In Defense of Links, Part One: Nick Carr, hypertext and delinkification — Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard</title>
    <dc:date>2010-08-31T11:20:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.wordyard.com/2010/08/30/in-defense-of-links-part-one-nick-carr-hypertext-and-delinkification/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>hypertext evisceration via:fernando_pereira reading bad_science_journalism rosenberg.scott carr.nicholas</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://preview.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127888976">
    <title>A Neuroscientist Uncovers A Dark Secret : NPR</title>
    <dc:date>2010-08-11T17:24:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://preview.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127888976</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Aargh, aargh, aargh.  Look, it's a cute story, and Fallon seems to be trying to do good, but the illogic!  Take at face value that this "warrior gene" (barf) allele predisposes to violence, all else being equal.  Do we know all the _other_ genes which contribute to this? No. For all we know he has the "big ol' teddy bear" gene (just look at him!), which is much stronger.  Or again, if the function of such-and-such a region of the brain is suppressing violent impulses, _and_ this shows up as metabolic activity, _and_ that activity is absent, maybe it's because he doesn't have many impulses that need to be inhibited.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>bad_science_journalism crime neuroscience behavioral_genetics via:? to:blog</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://wcohen.blogspot.com/2010/02/rightwing-bloggers-admit-no-we-really.html">
    <title>Cranial Darwinism: Rightwing bloggers admit: no, we really don't understand statistics?</title>
    <dc:date>2010-02-15T01:27:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://wcohen.blogspot.com/2010/02/rightwing-bloggers-admit-no-we-really.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>utter_stupidity statistics bad_science_journalism climate_change running_dogs_of_reaction natural_history_of_truthiness</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:fae4ed694be0/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2111">
    <title>Language Log » Ever get a buzz from reading a press release?</title>
    <dc:date>2010-02-11T16:42:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2111</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[And this, children, is how publicizing scientific findings actually comes to create myths.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>bad_science_journalism experimental_psychology natural_history_of_truthiness deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process evisceration liberman.mark</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1951">
    <title>Language Log » The business of newspapers is news</title>
    <dc:date>2009-12-11T14:30:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1951</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>human_genetics meta-analysis track_down_references why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_academic_publishing_system bad_science_journalism liberman.mark wade.nicholas</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:3995cf612986/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:track_down_references"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_academic_publishing_system"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1896">
    <title>Language Log » The hunt for the Hat Gene</title>
    <dc:date>2009-11-16T02:40:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1896</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>utter_stupidity bad_science_journalism why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps human_evolution liberman.mark wade.nicholas</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:7adf43dfe4ce/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/10/an-open-letter-to-steve-levitt/">
    <title>RealClimate: An open letter to Steve Levitt</title>
    <dc:date>2009-10-30T16:41:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/10/an-open-letter-to-steve-levitt/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Now this is what I call an epic take-down.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>climate_change renewable_energy geology geoengineering evisceration utter_stupidity fermi_problems bad_data_analysis bad_science_journalism why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps levitt.steven pierrehumbert.raymond</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:7b2ab03a44c9/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/science/26robot.html?_r=2&amp;ref=technology">
    <title>Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2009-07-26T22:51:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/science/26robot.html?_r=2&amp;ref=technology</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I seriously hope that the report itself is at a higher level than the 1953-vintage headline and unfocused noodling of the piece.  (Since Tom Mitchell is involved, I expect so.)  N.B., as a socialist, i am all in favor of the technological elimination of toil and drudgery, a.k.a. automation getting rid of crappy jobs...
]]></description>
<dc:subject>artificial_intelligence machine_learning bad_science_journalism technological_unemployment via:klk</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:71b35261180e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.jsmf.org/neuromill/archive.htm">
    <title>JSMF - BAD Neuro-Journalism:: Archive</title>
    <dc:date>2009-06-26T13:20:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.jsmf.org/neuromill/archive.htm</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[They seem to have given up the struggle around 2007.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>neuroscience bad_science_journalism</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:d2eaba9a0143/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1478">
    <title>Language Log » Mice with the “language gene” stay mum</title>
    <dc:date>2009-06-05T12:48:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1478</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>experimental_biology evolutionary_biology genetics linguistics neuropsychology evolution_of_cognition foxp2 liberman.mark bad_science_journalism</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:10a29c4a2a1b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/mcwhorter/archive/2009/05/15/big-bosoms-and-the-big-bang-did-the-human-condition-really-emerge-in-europe.aspx">
    <title>Big Bosoms and the Big Bang: Did the Human Condition Really Emerge in Europe?? - John McWhorter</title>
    <dc:date>2009-05-15T16:24:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/mcwhorter/archive/2009/05/15/big-bosoms-and-the-big-bang-did-the-human-condition-really-emerge-in-europe.aspx</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["It has actually been long established that the earliest evidence of artistically conscious humans has been found in, as we might expect, Africa, given that it’s where our species emerged. Specifically, South Africa, in Blombos Cave. There were beads made from shells, and geometric engravings on ochre – i.e. slam-dunk “modern” tokens, unimaginable of even the smartest dog, parrot, chimp, or even Australopithecine “Lucy.” And this stuff dates back to 75,000 to 80,000 years ago. No bosomy figurines, sure – but if what got dug up in Germany was jewelry and etchings instead, we can sure there would be the same claims that here was the birth of advanced thought."
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<item rdf:about="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1374">
    <title>Language Log » Conditional entropy and the Indus Script</title>
    <dc:date>2009-04-26T17:05:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1374</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Having read the papers and re-implemented the method, I now concur with Mark: this is an methodological EPIC FAIL.
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<dc:subject>information_theory linguistics bad_data_analysis bad_science_journalism harrapan_civilization liberman.mark blogged why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_academic_publishing_system</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1358">
    <title>Language Log » Debasing the coinage of rational inquiry: a case study</title>
    <dc:date>2009-04-22T20:26:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1358</link>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.scienceprogress.org/2009/02/the-george-will-scandal/">
    <title>The George Will Scandal</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-26T14:16:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.scienceprogress.org/2009/02/the-george-will-scandal/</link>
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<item rdf:about="http://bayes.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/all-wired-articles-are-wrong/#comment-8722">
    <title>All Wired Articles Are Wrong, and Increasingly You Can Succeed Without Them « Quantum of Wantum</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-24T19:13:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://bayes.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/all-wired-articles-are-wrong/#comment-8722</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps anderson.chris data_mining norvig.peter bad_science_journalism arthegall</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://norvig.com/fact-check.html">
    <title>All we want are the facts, ma'am</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-24T12:58:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://norvig.com/fact-check.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[When I wrote about Chris Anderson's idiotic piece back in the spring, I didn't say anything about the quote from Norvig, because it sounded very strange and not at all like Norvig.  And, indeed, he now says "That's a silly statement, I didn't say it, and I disagree with it."  Ah, Wired!
]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2009/02/obesity-virus-new-risk-factor.html">
    <title>Junkfood Science: Obesity virus — a new risk factor?</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-20T19:04:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2009/02/obesity-virus-new-risk-factor.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I forget how I wound up here, but it's well worth reading --- especially when you get to the flogging-of-dubious-products bit.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>obesity viruses bad_science_journalism bad_science experimental_biology biotechnology natural_history_of_truthiness via:? contagion</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://neuroanthropology.net/2009/01/24/what-do-these-enigmati-women-want/">
    <title>What do these enigmatic women want? « Neuroanthropology</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-24T23:12:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://neuroanthropology.net/2009/01/24/what-do-these-enigmati-women-want/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>practices_relating_to_the_transmission_of_genetic_information bad_science_journalism via:explananda downey.greg</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:20375ddd5baa/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/1584">
    <title>Journalism and science: Hepatitis B and missing women | vox.eu</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-31T12:40:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/1584</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Barro and (especially) Levitt really do not come out of this looking good.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_academic_publishing_system bad_science_journalism barro.robert levitt.steven dubner.stephen oster.emily klasen.stephan</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=406">
    <title>Language Log » The happiness gap returns</title>
    <dc:date>2008-07-30T20:47:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=406</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Why I do have this vivid mental picture of Mark defiantly shouting "¡No pasaran!" as he's overwhelmed by a horde of zombies/science writers?
]]></description>
<dc:subject>bad_science_journalism sex_differences regression liberman.mark</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:2a01bb688868/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=402">
    <title>Language Log » Pop platonism and unrepresentative samples</title>
    <dc:date>2008-07-26T18:56:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=402</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Mark continues his lonely crusade to pound some sense and decency into science journalists writing about research on sex differences.
]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://3quarksdaily.blogs.com/3quarksdaily/2008/06/down-i-say-down.html">
    <title>3quarksdaily: Down, I say down, with Malcolm Gladwell!</title>
    <dc:date>2008-06-30T19:04:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://3quarksdaily.blogs.com/3quarksdaily/2008/06/down-i-say-down.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Morgan Meis hates on _Blink_ (I felt the same about _The Tipping Point_): the smaller stories are fine, the frame-tale is silly.  Why _do_ Gladwell's books try to be synthesis and not just good journalism?
]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://foreigndispatches.typepad.com/dispatches/2008/06/a-plausible-genetic-explanation-for-homosexuality.html">
    <title>Foreign Dispatches: A Plausible Genetic Explanation for Homosexuality</title>
    <dc:date>2008-06-29T23:28:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://foreigndispatches.typepad.com/dispatches/2008/06/a-plausible-genetic-explanation-for-homosexuality.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[With bonus William Saletan bashing!
]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/06/29/chicks-dig-aholes-evolutionary-psych-on-sex-1/">
    <title>Chicks dig jerks?: Evolutionary psych on sex #1 « Neuroanthropology</title>
    <dc:date>2008-06-29T15:44:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/06/29/chicks-dig-aholes-evolutionary-psych-on-sex-1/</link>
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<item rdf:about="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=284">
    <title>Language Log » Language and personality</title>
    <dc:date>2008-06-28T17:52:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=284</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In addition to all the problems Mark lays out, it seems that the study has no way of differentiating between how people act and how they talk, or between behavior and impressions of norms.
]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=261">
    <title>Language Log » Innate sex differences: science and public opinion</title>
    <dc:date>2008-06-25T19:47:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=261</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Boy babies are innately somewhat more interested in transdimensional monsters than girl babies are."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>sex_differences experimental_psychology bad_science_journalism</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:aa1f38698863/</dc:identifier>
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</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-07/pb_theory">
    <title>The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete</title>
    <dc:date>2008-06-25T04:39:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-07/pb_theory</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A profoundly - and characteristically - stupid cover story from Wired.  (And I say this as someone who _works_ on nonparametric model discovery.)
]]></description>
<dc:subject>anderson.chris utter_stupidity methodological_advice data_mining bad_science_journalism the_wired_ideology to_teach:data-mining blogged</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:ded4499765fa/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to_teach:data-mining"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:blogged"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/comments/nice_guysreg_still_not_vindicated/">
    <title>pandagon.net: Nice Guys Still Not Vindicated</title>
    <dc:date>2008-06-25T03:36:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/comments/nice_guysreg_still_not_vindicated/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[When oh when will people learn not to confuse self-reports --- especially self-reports about sex, especially self-reports from sub-populations selected for bragging and lying! --- with reality?
]]></description>
<dc:subject>bad_science bad_science_journalism practices_relating_to_the_transmission_of_genetic_information marcotte.amanda</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:4e0e0ee9f18a/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://thepoorman.net/2008/06/18/gregg-easterbrook-is-wait-for-it-an-idiot/">
    <title>Gregg Easterbrook is - wait for it! - an idiot « The Poor Man Institute</title>
    <dc:date>2008-06-18T15:06:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thepoorman.net/2008/06/18/gregg-easterbrook-is-wait-for-it-an-idiot/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>evisceration bad_science_journalism mass_extinctions utter_stupidity why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps easterbrook.gregg risk_assessment asteroids</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:bca99af1b9a3/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:mass_extinctions"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/04/neuromarketing_does_.html">
    <title>Mind Hacks: Neuromarketing does great job of selling itself</title>
    <dc:date>2008-04-27T02:22:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/04/neuromarketing_does_.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Despite what these articles in the Guardian and New York Times say, neuroscience has yet to show that directly measuring brain function predicts sales or advertising success better than existing methods."
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<dc:subject>bad_science_journalism bad_science decision-making fmri marketing</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:737c880dafa7/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:fmri"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:marketing"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://neuroanthropology.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/bad-brain-science-boobs-caused-subprime-crisis/">
    <title>Bad brain science: Boobs caused subprime crisis « Neuroanthropology</title>
    <dc:date>2008-04-13T13:48:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://neuroanthropology.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/bad-brain-science-boobs-caused-subprime-crisis/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Man, what a cluster-fuck of stupidity.  (There is a decent behavioral experiment lurking underneath the, in this case, totally uninformative fMRI.)
]]></description>
<dc:subject>experimental_psychology decision-making fmri bad_science_journalism practices_relating_to_the_transmission_of_genetic_information financial_speculation</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:758c7f64dc51/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/0803.3678">
    <title>[0803.3678] Editorial: Statistics and &quot;The lost tomb of Jesus&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2008-03-27T13:51:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/0803.3678</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>statistics bad_data_analysis bad_science_journalism to_teach fienberg.stephen_e.</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f83675b01b3d/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:bad_science_journalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to_teach"/>
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</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005472.html">
    <title>Language Log: More functional neuroanatomy of science journalism</title>
    <dc:date>2008-03-18T12:31:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005472.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I'm not sure where Mark finds the patience.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>bad_science_journalism fmri sex_differences liberman.mark</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:6f8530e39e0d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005448.html">
    <title>Language Log: The functional neuroanatomy of science journalism</title>
    <dc:date>2008-03-13T12:22:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005448.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>liberman.mark evisceration bad_science_journalism fmri neuropsychology maternal_bonding utter_stupidity skolnick_effect</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:cfa743b10196/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:neuropsychology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:maternal_bonding"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:utter_stupidity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:skolnick_effect"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://gotmedieval.blogspot.com/2008/03/whither-chainmail-bikini.html">
    <title>Got Medieval: Whither the Chainmail Bikini?</title>
    <dc:date>2008-03-08T19:58:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://gotmedieval.blogspot.com/2008/03/whither-chainmail-bikini.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I like the definition of the "helga".
]]></description>
<dc:subject>chain-mail_bikini archaeology vikings clothing bad_science_journalism practices_relating_to_the_transmission_of_genetic_information funny via:?</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:29b61e64b428/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:archaeology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:vikings"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:clothing"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005420.html">
    <title>Language Log: Listening to Prozac, hearing effect sizes</title>
    <dc:date>2008-03-01T21:47:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005420.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["But now we're talking about fitting a statistical model to the distribution across studies of effect sizes -- a measure of the difference between the distributions of outcomes in the "drug" and "placebo" groups -- as a function of initial severity. And t
]]></description>
<dc:subject>statistics meta-analysis antidepressants bad_science_journalism liberman.mark rhetoric</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:a0b480b4583d/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:antidepressants"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.sacbee.com/749/story/730732.html">
    <title>Meow: Cat owners less likely to die from heart attacks, study says - sacbee.com</title>
    <dc:date>2008-02-23T17:20:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.sacbee.com/749/story/730732.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I'm sorry, but this has to be pure confounding.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>cats heart_attack medical_statistics bad_data_analysis bad_science_journalism via:klk</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:0898f4916e92/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://capacioushandbag.blogspot.com/2008/02/this-weeks-educational-rant.html">
    <title>A Somewhat Old, But Capacious Handbag: This week's educational rant</title>
    <dc:date>2008-02-08T16:15:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://capacioushandbag.blogspot.com/2008/02/this-weeks-educational-rant.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What heritability is and, more importantly, isn't.  (Preach it, sister!)  With particular reference to the BBC on obesity.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>bad_science_journalism heritability evisceration obesity</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f4fc1b69c13f/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:evisceration"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005261.html">
    <title>Language Log: The unkindness of strangers</title>
    <dc:date>2007-12-28T03:07:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005261.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>bad_science_journalism humor pragmatics sex_differences</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:d424c81b2c71/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2007/12/more_on_junk_sc.html">
    <title>More on junk science about effects on kids</title>
    <dc:date>2007-12-20T23:06:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2007/12/more_on_junk_sc.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>statistics bad_science bad_science_journalism bad_data_analysis</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:aa78af716754/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:bad_data_analysis"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005148.html">
    <title>Language Log: Flacks and hacks and brainscans</title>
    <dc:date>2007-11-23T17:11:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005148.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>natural_history_of_truthiness why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps bad_science_journalism</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:adfe3197e3e1/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:bad_science_journalism"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005105.html">
    <title>Language Log: How (not) to develop a cognitive neuroscience of politics</title>
    <dc:date>2007-11-12T19:13:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005105.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>farah.martha fMRI neuroscience bad_science_journalism to:blog</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:81d1324a38e3/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:neuroscience"/>
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