Links With Your Coffee - Sunday
- The Nation - In Politics, Let’s Call a Lie a Lie ... Finally - NYTimes.com
- Risk Latte - Derivatives, Concepts & Foundations
- The Satirical Political Report - An Offbeat Look at the Hot-Button Issues of the Day » Palin Declares ‘Missionary Position Reversed’
- Reflections on How Writers Make a Living | Narrative Magazine
- Respectful Insolence: Still more weekend pareidolia: Lookin' for Jesus in all the wrong places
- Fallacy Files Weblog Archive: September, 2008
For decades people have known that negative results tend not to get printed in academic journals, and it can happen for all kinds of reasons: they're not newsworthy, they're not much fun to write up, they don't look good on your CV, and they might not flatter your idea or product. … We may never know what was in that unpublished data, but those missing numbers will cost lives in quantities larger than any emotive health story covered in any newspaper. Doctors need negative data to make prescribing decisions. Academics need to know which ideas have failed, so they can work out what to study next, and which to abandon.
- Book Review - 'Left in Dark Times - A Stand Against the New Barbarism,' by Bernard-Henri Lévy - Review - NYTimes.com(review by Christopher Hitchens
- Stanley Fish is a Smug Bastard
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