鈥淧olice thought they could read her mind just by listening.鈥� It鈥檚 a chilling statement in reporter Brett Murphy鈥檚 ProPublica coverage and it sums up the pseudoscience of 911 call analysis. One of...
Desperate times call for desperate measures, I suppose. Although we live in a world driven by technology, we are always one cataclysm away from retreating to magical notions. Climate change is...
鈥淲e are pledging to assist those Americans who are impacted by this disaster by offering free medical care.鈥� On its own, a statement of solidarity and benevolence. But given who released the...
Have you ever heard of pancake syndrome? No, it鈥檚 not the medicalization of having breakfast for dinner, nor is it a skin rash reminiscent of those delicious flat cakes. It鈥檚 a severe allergic...
Do you know your best friend鈥檚 phone number? In the 1990s, I had my best friend鈥檚 phone number memorized, and I鈥檓 pretty sure I remembered it just now after thinking about it for a minute. But the...
We love putting names to things, especially if those names are scientific. Just look at the variety of phenomena people love to refer to as the Dunning-Kruger effect: the idea that other people ...
