Tag Archives: New York Times
Middle fingers to the NYT and NYer
American outlets will steal our journalists’ ideas and obfuscate memories of their initiative and the Indian government will treat them like they don’t exist. Continue reading
Posted in Scicomm
Tagged Amruta Byatnal, New York Times, New Yorker, Project Pegasus, Ronan Farrow, The Wire
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A false union in science journalism
At what point does a journalist become a stenographer? Most people would say it’s when the journalist stops questioning claims and reprints them uncritically, as if they were simply a machine. So at what point does a science journalist become … Continue reading
Posted in Scicomm, Science
Tagged Holden Thorpe, New York Times, science communication, science journalism, self-correcting
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SSC: Addendum
It’s wonderful how the mind has a way of cultivating clarity in the background, away from the gaze of the mind’s eye and as the mind itself is preoccupied with other thoughts, on matters considered only a few days ago … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis
Tagged Astral Codex Ten, New York Times, Quillette, rationalists, Scott Aaronson, Scott Alexander Siskind, Slate Star Codex, view from nowhere
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Slate Star Codex: No time for malice
This post benefited from valuable input and feedback from Thomas Manuel. To the uninitiated: Scott Alexander Siskind is a noted member of the international community of rationalists and wrote the once-celebrated blog Slate Star Codex. I use the past tense because … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Culture
Tagged Cade Metz, doxxing, Elizabeth Spiers, fascism-curious, New York Times, rationalism, rationalists, Scott Aaronson, Scott Alexander, Scott Alexander Siskind, Slate Star Codex, view from nowhere, will wilkinson
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The costs of correction
I was slightly disappointed to read a report in the New York Times this morning. Entitled ‘Two Huge COVID-19 Studies Are Retracted After Scientists Sound Alarms’, it discussed the implications of two large studies of COVID-19 recently being retracted by … Continue reading
Posted in Science
Tagged COVID-19, Elisabeth Bik, hydroxychloroquine, New England Journal of Medicine, New York Times, peer review, preprint papers, preprints, scientific literature, scientific publishing, The Lancet
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