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  1. “It’s okay to be a misfit as long as your science is good.”

    www.psychologytoday.com
    baetsie

  2. “so why has DARPA been doing so much less for the economy than it did forty or fifty years ago? Parts of it have become politicized. You can’t just write checks to the thirty smartest scientists in the United States. Instead there are bureaucratic processes, and I think the politicization of science—where a lot of scientists have to write grant applications, be subject to peer review, and have to get all these people to buy in—all this has been toxic, because the skills that make a great scientist and the skills that make a great politician are radically different.”

    www.the-american-interest.com
    baetsie

  3. “Flavor researchers sometimes use colored lights to modify the influence of visual cues during taste tests. During one experiment in the early 1970s people were served an oddly tinted meal of steak and french fries that appeared normal beneath colored lights. Everyone thought the meal tasted fine until the lighting was changed. Once it became apparent that the steak was actually blue and the fries were green, some people became ill.”

    www.rense.com
    baetsie

  4. “Naked Genes: Reinventing the Human in the Molecular Age by Helga Nowotny, a leading sociologist of science, and the biologist Giuseppe Testa. Their book is a subtle and sophisticated analysis of how the life sciences are shifting our view of ourselves and the challenges this is posing. The title stems from a simple but telling observation: that it is the role of the sciences to “make things visible that could not previously be seen”

    www.ft.com
    protoslacker

  5. “there is a dark side to semen chemistry”

    www.huffingtonpost.com
    baetsie

  6. “despite huge advances in understanding the functions of many of the 20,000 human genes, researchers are finding that the underlying genetic causes of a single disease may lie not only in simple substitutions of DNA subunits, but also in much larger deletions, insertions, reversals, and variations in the number of copies of repeated sequences. They are learning that diverse biochemical pathways in the living cell can lead to the same result. They confront the paradox that the multiplicity of causes may complicate understanding of a disease—and yet may open up more opportunities to control or prevent it.”

    harvardmagazine.com
    baetsie

  7. “Là où les études à la con deviennent dangereuses c’est qu’elles engendrent des stéréotypes quasi performatifs, c’est-à-dire qui ont la capacité de créer de toute pièce la réalité qu'elles ne prétendent que décrire.”

    www.slate.fr
    timalo_slam

  8. “The study of misprints in scientific citations had lead to the conclusion that about 80% of citations are copied from the lists of references used in other papers1. Thus, in a majority of cases, a citation is not a result of an independent evaluation of the qualities of the cited paper but merely an imitation of another citer’s behavior.”

    www.skeptic.com
    baetsie

  9. “We cannot escape the troubling conclusion that some—perhaps many—cherished generalities are at best exaggerated in their biological significance and at worst a collective illusion nurtured by strong a-priori beliefs often repeated.”

    www.newyorker.com
    baetsie

  10. “if ninety-seven per cent of psychology studies were proving their hypotheses, either psychologists were extraordinarily lucky or they published only the outcomes of successful experiments”

    www.newyorker.com
    baetsie