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Upward and Onward with Peer Review, Cont.
“I read over the ‘provisionally accepted’ paper. It is obvious to me, non-mathematician, that it was completely incoherent, and never would have made it.”
Spiders Have Eight (Well-Designed) Eyes
Spiders are good for scaring people at Halloween, but they’re really intelligently designed animals more scared of us than we are of them, with eight eyes to alert them of our approach.
Science Left Behind Can Teach Us about Political Tactics of Intelligent Design Critics
“The right is not more anti-science than the left; it just has terrible public relations.”
Chris Mooney’s The Republican Brain: Self-Therapeutic and Self-Refuting
The circular, self-serving nature of Mooney’s argument is hard to miss.
The Republican Brain vs. Science Left Behind
One day recently, I came into my office to find that two newly published books I had ordered arrived on the same day.