Philosophy
The Uneasiness of Evolutionary Honesty
I need to introduce a long excerpt before I start: I am a zoologist and the naked ape is an animal. He is therefore fair game for my pen and…
Pushing the Limits
Once I did something almost unthinkable for me: I bought a magazine off the supermarket shelf while waiting in the checkout line. No, it wasn’t a gossip magazine—that would be…
Sensitivity and Specificity
The problem with trying to fix an error after making many mistakes is that we tend to err in the opposite direction. You know the saying: first by omission and…
“Not everything is possible and truth does not depend on perspective”
I start this article with a strong opinion. You may say I am an opinionated person and I may agree with you on that. But can we decide who is right…
Without Statistics, Science would be Just Religion
A very important article published today in Nature called my attention. It talks, again, about the misuses of statistics by scientists and the volume of unreproducible studies it is producing. You probably have…