John Ioannidis, Stanford epidemiologist whose 2005 paper “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False” was a great contribution to the discipline of meta-research, or research about research, is founding a meta-research center called the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS).…
Greed and Money
It is no news that focusing too much on maximizing wealth can be problematic. A famous person is reported to have said “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich…
Introduction
This blog will present a collection of worthwhile and important items of interest to people who care about major problems facing humanity. Rather than news, it will contain what might be called imps, where imps is to news as important…