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02 Dec 2008 23:38
Posner on Blink
Advocacy vs. evidence
Passive voice useful at times
Spotting problems by spotting passive verbs
Who did what in scientific work
What did Darwin mean?
Latour big think
It's more complicated than that
Pun misused?
New draft now posted at top of thread, ET replies
More on use of "pun"
Reasoning by sloppy analogy
Dequantification to smooth results
Duplicity
Duplicity vs. pun
Cherry picking
Cherry picking
Grading oneself not good evidence
Overreaching names
Why most published research findings are false
Bullet points and passive voice road to victory
Detecting scientific fabrication
Funding our conclusions
Corrupt results in physics textbooks
See "Introductory physics: The new scholasticism" by Sanjoy Mahajan, Physics Department, University of Cambridge, and David W. Hogg, Physics Department, New York University at
http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0412107v2
-- Edward Tufte, December 2, 2008
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