A new report from NPR publishes a letter from The Hartford describing data they gave to Dan Ariely as having been fraudulently manipulated in a paper based on that data.| Neuromarketing
Transcript: Last month, I talked about an MIT preprint published on arXiv about AI. It’s a little early for an update on that, but there is some interesting news about another MIT preprint publishe…| Skepchick
Posts about Academia written by peterstone, Yoram Gat, keithsutherland, and Ted Wachtel| Equality by lot
In 2006, Sylvain Lesné and seven coauthors published a paper on Alzheimer’s disease, “A specific amyloid-beta protein assembly in the brain impairs memory,” in Nature, the world’s most prestigious scientific journal. This was a major paper in the development of the “amyloid hypothesis,” a proposed mechanism for how Alzheimer’s disease afflicts its victims. About 50 million people suffer from Alzheimer’s disease, more than the entire population of California, making it the wor...| Palladium Magazine
Tutor bots, data detectives, and I FOUND A FIVE-LEAF CLOVER| blog.ncase.me
The plane crashed and nobody checked the bodies| www.experimental-history.com