Readings or Videos I Enjoyed This Week
Added 2023-01-12 06:41:54 +0000 UTCMetascience
https://unherd.com/thepost/study-finds-science-is-becoming-less-innovative/
Interesting article on Unherd about science becoming less innovative.
https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review Article that was in the academic debate. This outlines broadly mine and Corey's position.
https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/psychology-might-be-a-big-stinkin
Interesting article arguing that the replication crisis in psychology is less of a crisis and more of a, "Yeah, that's how science works."
Psychology
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wuu8URArgZusJELXF5j4xpM26ESkFfOveYoGKBf0CHo/edit Angry Birds by John Bargh about the replication crisis. Super interesting, reads like a flow of consciousness.
https://www.virtualhospice.ca/maid/media/3bdlkrve/maid-activity-book.pdf
This is an activity book made for kids in Canada to explain MAID. How do you feel about it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFzDaBzBlL0
Crazy cool video! Backwards bike highlight neuroplasticity! At 6 minutes you can literally watch his brain swap motor pathways.
https://www.adhdevidence.org/blog/12-12-2022
Neurofeedback therapy found ineffective for ADHD. This is something I wanted to include as it is an update in a previous finding I had shared that was the opposite in direction. I have said there is evidence of its efficacy. It turns out with this meta-analysis, that the effects are not robust. :(
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aac4716
Original article that outlines the replication crisis within psychology. There are actually a number of major issues with this study. For example, when replicating some studies, they completely changed the methodology. This is not a replication. How true is the replication crisis anyway?
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1258/jrsm.2008.080062
Another article documenting problems with peer review. We had a long discussion about this
Philosophy
https://www.sublationmag.com/post/a-pascalean-wager-against-scientific-determinism
Slavoj Zizek article rallying against scientific determinism.
Politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrBRV3WK2x4
Ryan Chapmans coverage of the history of socialism, tracking to Aristotle and Hegel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T_98uT1IZs
Ryan Chapmans coverage of Fascism, focuses on Sorel, Mussolini, and Hitler.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFEeHPYp7sg
Ryan Chapmans coverage of Marxism. I clearly have been going in on Ryan Chapman
Biology
https://phys.org/news/2018-01-chromosome-men.html
Y chromosome is shrinking! The TRUE fall of men.
