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Science Proves Some People Are Immune to Deepak Chopra’s Bullshit
I came across a study this week from the University of Waterloo with a title that is clearly in the running for Best Study Title Ever: “On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit,” by Pennycook, Cheyne, Barre, Koehler and Fugelsang. This creatively-named study looked at individuals’ receptiveness to vague, buzzwordy bullshit statements such as those from Deepak Chopra’s twitter…
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Wakefield. No medical license. No conscience.
Last week, Andrew Wakefield traveled to Minneapolis to meet with Somali parents. It was a closed door meeting. No media allowed. But I think we can safely assume that he wasn’t there to do good deeds. Not in the middle of a measles outbreak. Not when the outbreak is centralized in the Somali community. Not when a disproportionate number of…
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Selling (Bullshit) with Science in 5 Easy Steps!
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