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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Little_Fable is probably a close as Kafka got to a children's book. "Alas", said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the be…

This is the critical question and the answer is no, as far as I'm aware. Like many such suggestions it's "A great tool for telling you things you already know" as my professor used…

This article is a general critique of the reward system in academia, bolted on the lab leak hypothesis for clickbait. "The Science Game" is a thing and often discussed on HN, but I…

Interesting article, but some of the arguments are pretty weak. >“Collectivism leads to concentration camps, leader worship, and war.” >"Capitalism led to the creation of monopolie…

> It seems to me that if we all weren't constantly dividing ourselves by an increasing number of characteristics that are not socioeconomic class, then we would have an enormous gr…

> She says she didn't publish this model for glory, but she also named it after herself. She didn't name it after herself, the users did: > collegues ... began using it and address…

This argument is called "Bertlmann's Socks" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhold_Bertlmann#Bertlmann%E... The other replies explain why it's wrong, but here's a link to Bell's re…

So, what's the real story? Is it all just trolling?

Take curcumin papers with a pinch of salt. It's a pan assay interference compound (PAIN), prone to misleading results. Pubmed is full of thousands of papers claiming it solves all …