Bias Seen in Bias Studies “The ‘Faculty Bias’ Studies: Science or Propaganda,” takes eight of the recent studies on faculty politics and judges them by five general tests of social science research. Today?s study finds that the eight all come up short in adhering to research standards. The new study was sponsored by the American […]
Year: 2007
Slightly-high-heel injury epidemic
The journal Injury alerts us to another new health menace of high-heeled shoes: “Heely Injuries: A New Epidemic Warranting a Government Health Warning!” B. Lenehan, O. Callender, A. McIntyre, S. Boran, D. Moore, E. Fogarta and F. Dowling, Injury, January 17, 2007 [Epublication ahead of print publication]. The authors, who are at variously at the […]
Pathology: voice of doom
Boy’s voice ‘kills 400 chickens’ BEIJING, China (Reuters) — Hundreds of chickens have been found dead in east China — and a court has ruled that the cause of death was the screaming of a four-year-old boy who in turn had been scared by a barking dog, state media reported on Wednesday?. A villager was […]
Stan Wagon’s squared bicycle
Stan Wagon built a bicycle that has square wheels. It gives a wonderfully smooth ride over appropriate terrain. (Thanks to investigator Danny Lichtblau for bringing this to our attention.)