Today’s Misrepresentations and Doubletalk Study of the Day is: “Deceivers Deceived: Devilish Doubletalk in Inferno 21-23,” Christopher Kleinhenz, Quaderni Dilaliamstica, vol. 10. nos. 1-2. 1989. The author, at the University of Wisconsin, explains: “In the course of their journey downward through the eighth circle of Hell, through the series of ten concentric ditches (bolge) which […]
A backwards film: chickens and Flannery O’Connor
British Pathe makes available one of their old films, in which animals are shown (though the magic of technology) walking backwards. The little girl in the film grew up to be the author Flannery O’Connor, so they say. (HT Jeff Betancourt)
Tonight: Ig Nobel Night in Perugia!
Join us at the Perugia Science Fest tonight—Saturday, September 28, at 9:00 pm. DETAILS: Perugia Science Fest, Sala di Notari. Science journalist Silvia Bencivelli will introduce and dialogue with Marc Abrahams. The evening features Ig Nobel Prize winners Alberto Minetti (new Italian Ig Nobel winner!) and Kees Moeliker (homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck).
Dr. Siegel self-publishes his retracted p-value article
“‘Penis Envy’ was published February 14 on PsychologyToday.com and removed two weeks later,” claims Dr. Stanley Siegel, who then inserted his article into his own site. The article includes a story that Dr. Siegel [pictured here] clearly treasures—a story some might be tempted to consider apocryphal—about one of his patients whose father was a mohl, […]