Tag Archives: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Testicle Size in Parenting and Sexual Selection

Posted on October 15, 2013 by

Thanks goes to Laura Deming for pointing out another recent paper whose title, “Testicular volume is inversely correlated with nurturing-related brain activity in human fathers,” proved irresistible to PNAS, enabling them to overlook stunning intellectual flaws.  Problems include: Selection bias. Participants … Continue reading →

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Science is Not Your Enemy

Posted on September 18, 2013 by

A labored defense of the practice of science – which we will define as scientism – was recently published under the title Science is Not Your Enemy by Stephen Pinker in New Republic magazine. A much more lighthearted approach by Tim Minchin … Continue reading →

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