by david allan van nostrand | Feb 15, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence, Shaky Science, Voodoo Statistics
Long before automated resumé screening, a friend complained long and loud about how every time he needed to hire someone to work in the office, the phone would ring all day. Most of the applicants who called about the job were not the kind of people who had resumés or...
by david allan van nostrand | Jan 18, 2021 | Misinformation traps, Shaky Science, Voodoo Statistics
Radium, a solid, is one of forty radioactive elements (uranium, plutonium are the best-known). Discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, it glows in the dark and has a half-life of 1,600 years. Its less-toxic cousin radon (originally called radium emanation) is...
