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Tag Archives: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Testicle Size in Parenting and Sexual Selection
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
Science is Not Your Enemy
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
