by david allan van nostrand | Sep 30, 2019 | Gatekeepers, Human Behavior, Language, Social Desirability
In The Guardian, Issy Sampson described rap music as society’s lurch toward infantilism. His? Her? (but certainly not Their) many examples included language that disgusts most people. The British daily published every bit of it unbowdlerized, as is their policy....
by david allan van nostrand | Sep 23, 2019 | Misinformation traps, Research
At least that’s what bought-and-paid-for scientists say. The Not-(Directly)-for-Profit International Life Sciences Institute was created forty years ago by Coke, Pepsi, General Mills, and others, all companies with less interest in Life Sciences than in...
by david allan van nostrand | Sep 16, 2019 | Items in the News, Surveys
NOTE: “dick pics” is the colloquial term used in scientific papers, online publications, and Europe, where news outlets take casual coarseness like this n stride. The first academic study on dick pics has been published. Its objective was “to explore...
by david allan van nostrand | Sep 2, 2019 | Items in the News, Voodoo Statistics
Hurricane Screams Down Upon Boca Raton! Several friends from elsewhere called to see how I was faring with the monster hurricane making the news across the country. After twice explaining the disconnect between what they were being told and what was actually...
