A class of failed disciplines — psychiatry, education, macroeconomics — unable to raise the mean, lower the variance and declare victory.
Sep 182017
Sep 162017
If policy simply achieved its ends, a new outlet would have to be found for the ingenuity expended in its defense.
Sep 152017
It is in fields where expertise is dubious or bogus that practitioners stress the importance of deferring to expertise.
Sep 142017
To write something that could not have been written any other way usually takes several drafts.
Sep 132017
We ought to think of the present as if it were the past; instead we think of the past as if it were the present.
Sep 122017
What politicians say about science is as silly as what scientists say about politics.
Sep 112017
Prejudice, n. The precipitate of a principle.
Sep 082017
The people who most need to be persuaded of their own stupidity have been told all their lives how clever they are.
Sep 072017
People who refuse to be categorized are all alike.
Sep 062017
Placebo is most of medicine, and nocebo is most of philosophy.