Another popular meme debunked.
. . . this effect has been the darling of journalists who want to explain why dumb people don’t know they’re dumb. . . .
. . . the celebrated effect was just a mirage brought about by the peculiar way in which we can play with numbers.
Thrills and chills: new science is likely to be in the offing.
This is a good observation:
The majority of UFOs appear to people in the United States. It’s curious that Asia and Africa have so few sightings despite their large populations, and even more surprising that the sightings stop at the Canadian and Mexican borders.
Steve Milloy lists ten climate predictions that did not come true last year. That makes, I don't know, about 1000 now? Somebody needs to do the math.
This sounds disturbing:
The pro-lockdown evidence is shockingly thin, and based largely on comparing real-world outcomes against dire computer-generated forecasts derived from empirically untested models, and then merely positing that stringencies and “nonpharmaceutical interventions” account for the difference between the fictionalized vs. the real outcome.
Related: "Lockdown: a deadly, failed experiment".
While he struggles manfully, but I don't think he has much of an answer. (Not surprising.)
I spend a few minutes researching this and there are apparently at least a handful of studies that come to the same conclusion. That conclusion is consistent with my preferences: short-term relationships interested me very little and I was always more interested in looking at the face.
A ringing statement that physics isn't "dead" and that there's a lot more to find out. (I checked: the spirit of Big Al approves.)
Sabine Hossenfelder is pretty excited about a new paper on warp drives.
Amazing: dogs can hijack the oxytocin loop. (Oxytocin is the so-called "love hormone".)