Article: 'Method In the Madness?: Research Stories You Won't Read In Textbooks' Is Presented As a Companion To Researchers Investigating the Complex World of Work.(Report)

Article: Quack science.(Letter to the Editor)
Washington Monthly;  June 1, 2002 ;     465 words ... ... mystical beliefs reached a critical mass, driving unnecessary research and promoting ideologically-based medicine. We have more ... relieve themselves of their beliefs, no matter how much negative research surrounds them. And the public gets deluded into following ...

Article: Social science. (Letter From the Editors).
W;  November 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...November As any social observer can attest--even an amateur with, say, only a few months of reading Suzy under her belt--there is an endless supply of parvenus striving for entre into high society. It is, after all, human nature to yearn to join the group, to be on the inside. But society's

Article: Junk science.(Letter to the Editor)
Pollution Engineering;  September 1, 2003 ;     505 words ... ... illustrate is how carefully selected bits of information from second-hand reports can be used to attempt to debunk legitimate research and legitimate efforts to use limited knowledge in setting public policy. Daniel B. Jones Portland, Oregon Editor responds ...

Article: Weird science.( )(Letter to the editor)
Harper's Magazine;  February 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...In her November review, "Hysterical Scientism," Marilynne Robinson argues that "eugenics is science as surely as totemism is religion"; therefore Richard Dawkins should own up to the treachery of science. But Robinson is dismissive of the fact that scientists assume error as a function of their

Article: Silly old science: Letter
The Independent - London;  October 14, 1996 ;     259 words ...Sir: So "the fault lies with science, not the girls and their mothers", does it (Leader, 9 October)? Just as the fault lay with the greylag goose killed, allegedly by Roy Hattersley's dog, in St James's Park - it was supposed to fly away. Do the logicians have a term for this inverted form of

Article: Baffled by science.(Letter)
The Birmingham Post (England);  February 19, 2001 ;     377 words ...Byline: DENNIS N HURLEY Sir, - If your correspondent J Horton (Post, Feb 12) intended to baffle us with science he certainly succeeded. Did he ever crouch down on the side of a railway embankment and watch what happened to the rails and sleepers when a steam loco went by at 60mph? In those days the

Article: Not rocket science.(Letter)(Letter to the editor)
Arkansas Business;  June 22, 2009 ;     347 words ...I could not agree more with Jeff Hankins' Publisher's Note (June 15) about how the need for "lottery experience" in the new director's position was a bit overblown. We're not trying to put a man on the moon. We're just trying to convince fools to part with their money--something many people readily