My apologies about the blog being borked earlier today; I wasn't able to republish the pages for a few hours cuz I had to do TEH SCIENTISMZ!!
Anyway, you might want to read this post about healthcare that was EATED.
More like this
Lest there be any doubt that I'm not as nuts in real life as I am on the blog, here's a slide I used yesterday during a full-blown fancy-schmancy professional talk:
It's yontif, and we don't blog on yontif, so here are some more highlights from 2009:
On Work and Time in Science
A couple of weeks ago, Jonah Lehrer wrote about the Decline Effect, where the support for a scientific claim often tends to decrease or even disappear over time (ZOMG! TEH SCIENTISMZ R FALSE!).
One of the things I can't stand about non-open access publishers is that federally-funded scientific results (federally subsidized in multiple ways) are locked behind a publisher's for-profit fire
"My apologies about the blog being borked earlier today;"
You mean the blog acted the evil henchman, willing to follow nefarious orders that people of integrity had refused to do?
It's good to remember the original meaning of the term.