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May 7, 2025
What is the point of Harvard’s research?Charlie Munger, chief investment advisor to Warren Buffett, famously said, “Show me the incentives and I will show you the outcome.” In the academic world, it has always been about publish or perish for researchers. ...
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April 14, 2025
Junk science and air pollutionWe took one for the team by reading Particles of Truth: A Story of Discovery, Controversy, and the Fight for Healthy Air, by C. Arden Pope III, Douglas W. Dockery, so you won’t have to suffer through it. The book has twelve chapters plus ref...
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January 11, 2025
The flu shot: More questions than answersAs we enter peak vaccine silly season, we are counselled by our public health betters in government and academia to get vaccinated for the flu, RSV, and COVID-19 viruses. A worthy article could be written on any one of these viruses. But our intere...
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December 12, 2024
DIE myths and tyranny against high-end talentDiversity, Inclusion, and Equity (DIE) is a squishy concept offering that organizations might benefit by building teams with people of varying backgrounds, skills, and perspectives — including different races, sexes, ethnicities, etc. One my...
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November 9, 2024
Is the majority of white Americans really anti-black?“Implicit bias” is catchphrase made largely from claims that the Implicit Association Test, or IAT, can measure people’s unconscious prejudice toward another race, the other sex, or any topic of interest. The IAT was deve...