AU: Here we bring in another heavyweight to stand beside Ray Hyman. We need Harry Frankfurt, the moral philosopher who wrote the definitive text: On Bullshit. Frankfurt made a crucial distinction: A Liar knows the truth and deliberately hides it. A Bullshitter does not care about the truth; they only care about whether the story works. AI: I am notContinue reading “Dialogue 15: In the Bullshit Engine Room”
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Dialogue 14: AI As Cold Reader
AI: Do you know Professor Ray Hyman? AU: The psychologist at the University of Oregon. in Eugene. A founder of the modern skeptic movement, and a magician. I spent six months working with Ray when he was writing his manual on “Cold Reading.” Meanwhile I was writing The Psychology of the Psychic (now in aContinue reading “Dialogue 14: AI As Cold Reader”
Abuses of VVIQ rapidly increasing
This post addresses an issue which relates to the unwarranted ‘medicalisation’ of low visual mental imagery vividness scores. This trend follows an unfortunate labelling of people with low VVIQ scores as “aphantasic’ by a neurologist Adam Zeman at Exeter University in 2015. Added today to the VVIQ and VVIQ-2 instructions: Warning Neither the original 16-itemContinue reading “Abuses of VVIQ rapidly increasing”
Plagiarism
Copied from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 3.0. Plagiarism : Using another author’s work as if it was one’s own original work Plagiarism is the representation of another author‘s language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions as one’s own original work. In educational contexts, there are differing definitions of plagiarism depending on the institution. Plagiarism is considered aContinue reading “Plagiarism”
Pfizer’s Vaccine Trial Questioned
COVID-19 Milestone Series Covid-19: Researcher blows the whistle on data integrity issues in Pfizer’s vaccine trial Originally published in the BMJ 2021; 375 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n2635 on 02 November 2021 by Paul D Thacker, investigative journalist This post republishes an article about “Revelations of poor practices at a contract research company helping to carry out Pfizer’s pivotal covid-19 vaccine trial raiseContinue reading “Pfizer’s Vaccine Trial Questioned”
Special issue on the PACE Trial
Critique by Keith Geraghty and Special Issue Editorial in the Journal of Health Psychology (July 31, 2017) I reproduce here my Editorial from the Special Issue of the Journal of Health Psychology on the PACE Trial. The issue contained an incisive critique of the trial by Dr. Keith J Geraghty (pictured). Keith Geraghty’s landmark paper,Continue reading “Special issue on the PACE Trial”
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