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Reading About Thinking (on D. Kahneman’s Ideas on Perceptions of Knowledge)
An article appeared in yesterday’s NYT Magazine on the hazards of over-confidence. The Israeli-born psychologist (and epistemologist, I’d dare say), Nobel laureate and author Daniel Kahneman considers...
View ArticleHow Do You Know What’s True?
This week at Scientific American’s Observations, reporter Katherine Harmon asks: Does science need more compelling stories to foster public trust? This excellent question came my way, rephrased on...
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A Note on ‘Trial by Twitter’ and Peer Review in 2012
Nature just published a feature: Trial by Twitter. The piece considers the predicament of researchers who may find themselves ill-prepared to deal with a barrage of unsolicited and immediate on-line...
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