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» “A science that does not allow opposing opinions abolishes knowledge.” Er, kind of
» Getting it Right: Addressing Myths about the 2021 NICE Guideline for ME/CFS
» Talking to David Tuller about dualism
» Where I speak to colleagues in the Swedish parliament…
» New book…
» Eight (or more) logical fallacies in that paper bemoaning the new NICE guideline for ME/CFS
» ME, Long Covid, and the History of Medical Stigma (Transcript)
» ME, Long Covid, and the History of Medical Stigma (Podcast)
» Another look at the new NICE guideline for ME/CFS
» Why the IRFU’s transgender policy is an example of the ecological fallacy
» Of course there is no monster in Loch Ness (despite what the university’s Press Office might want you to believe)
» Why are transphobes so transphobic?
» Medical haste, COVID-19, and the mythology of “Medically Unexplained Symptoms”
» ‘Cancel culture’ paranoia and other right-wing hysterics reveal medical conservatism’s true colours
» Authors defend statistical errors, editor sees no evil
» The New NICE Guideline for ME/CFS (2021): Following the Science
» Psychology, religion, and public policy
» Will innumeracy cause this study to be retracted? Don’t count on it…
» Psychogenic ME/CFS: Turning the Nostalgia Up to Eleven
» No, that antibody study does *not* show that Long COVID is caused by “beliefs”
» “The problem may well be that some of our treatments are too evidence based”
» Self-styled medical leaders defend “neurolinguistic processing” as legit treatment for ME/CFS
» New Treatment Guideline, Same Old Denialism
» [Class Recording] Is Psychology a Science?
» BMJ chooses face-saving over fact-checking
» NICEXIT: Royal Colleges look to “take back control” of treatment standards
» The new NICE Guideline for ME/CFS: Ten Questions Answered
» Journalists covering ME/CFS: Don’t ask about the new NICE guideline, ask about the old one
» How illnesses become psychologised: Long COVID, ME, and the ‘All-In-Your-Head’ cartel
» Is it just me, or is the BMJ’s take on those NICE guideline committee resignations maybe a little biased?
» Where the tragic happens
» Paradigm Lost: Lessons for Long COVID
» Time to flatten the curve of shoddy COVID scholarship
» On risk perception and vaccine clots
» Our response to that controversial study on CBT outcomes in chronic fatigue has now been formally published
» Some psychiatrists still not getting it
» All Aboard the Long COVID gravy train
» Off the PACE and not NICE
» Podcasting about Lockdowns, Vaccines, and “Following the Science”
» Who’s more deluded, the conspiracy nuts or the journalists who dismiss them?
» Apart from the sampling ambiguity, weak measurement, survivor bias, missing data, and lack of control group, the study wasn’t that bad
» Beware the COVID-sceptic doctors
» The Report into Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes: Bad history
» Post-Trump Stress Disorder
» On the psychology of (Covid) Christmas
» Letter to the BMJ
» Expert reaction to the BMJ editorial calling for the abandonment of standards
» COVID-19 and vaccine hesitancy: Media round-up
» Psychology’s exaggeration crisis
» Human rights in a global pandemic
» On COVID-19, the economy, mental health, and suicide
» No More Mr NICE Guy…
» Could this actually be happening?
» Make Nostalgia Great Again
» COVIDxHalloween: The Psychology of Wearing Masks
» You’re so vain, you probably think this global pandemic is about you
» Facebook page
» Is the stampede of COVID-19 science encouraging substandard research?
» COVID conspiracies and the psychology of vaccine hesitancy
» Why conduct good research when you can just cock it all up?
» The other pandemic
» Two takes on the expensive, unproven, and childishly-named quackery known as the Lightning Process
» Post-Covid syndrome, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, and the recurring pseudoscience of mass hysteria
» Things to do in Chernobyl when you’re alive
» Covid-19, Psychology, and the Politics of Life-and-Death Science
» “Proud to be maladjusted”
» Why the British really voted for Brexit
» Please don’t vote for racists. Vote AGAINST them
» I get mail
» “The Psychology of Brexit” is now available!
» On “celebratory racism”
» Fact-checking the racists: The psychological approach of Ireland’s alt-right
» Michael Collins is the new Noel Grealish (who is the new Peter Casey (etc. (etc.)))
» Podcasting Brexit
» What the alt-right are privately saying about their “important work” in Oughterard
» Oughterard
» The BMJ’s ambiguous editorial commitment to scientific rigour
» Psychology in Crisis: My interview with the ‘Medical Error’ podcast
» I guess some core competencies are just more core than others
» Brexit contingency-planning latest: Don’t ask me, ask God, minister testifies
» Human Factors in ME/CFS research
» New book “The Psychology of Brexit” now available to pre-order
» The media and transphobia: How Christianity gets a free pass
» *Yes* obstruction: ‘Active information avoidance’ and the Mueller Report
» It’s ‘bogus argument’ time again, as Ireland’s right-wingers gear up for divorce referendum
» If this is what the collapse of centrism looks like, then PLEASE give me more centrism
» If you spend 20 years gaslighting your patients, perhaps you should think twice before accusing *them* of trolling *you*
» Good news. Psychologists are not going anywhere. Ever
» The HRA report does not exonerate the PACE trial, it merely confirms that its Research Ethics paperwork was in order
» ‘Psychology of Christmas’ media round-up
» Here is a video of my lecture on the PACE Trial controversy
» The Psychology of Christmas
» Psychology is (not?) fine
» The Triumph of Eminence-Based Medicine
» Forty-one international scientists have signed a declaration supporting Cochrane’s decision to withdraw its controversial review of exercise therapy in ME/CFS
» The government have ordered a forensic excavation of the #TuamBabies site
» Halloween MRI Special: Guts, Brain, Skeleton, etc (in fact, *my* guts, brain, skeleton, etc)
» ‘Psychology in Crisis’ is now available
» Sometimes I feed the trolls
» Blasphemers of the world, unite
» At the #TuamBabies silent vigil: A photo essay
» So I went to the Tuam Babies meeting to have my say, and then I realised I shouldn’t have one
» I want to propose a new “Moral Panic Disorder” diagnosis to deal with all this hysteria about gaming and screen time
» In two minutes, these (British) Gogglebox viewers produced a more cogent analysis of the Irish referendum result than the entire mainstream Irish media have managed in seven days
» Those oh-so-convincing anti-repeal arguments re-capped (Greatest Hits version)
» It’s official: Ireland’s abortion ban repealed by popular vote
» This. Just this.
» Looks like I should have gone to press with my “populist landslide” prediction. Exit poll suggests Ireland has well and truly CRUSHED its abortion ban!
» Ireland is voting in its abortion referendum and this is on the FRONT PAGE of its leading national newspaper
» Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names are the go-to propaganda tool of unreconstructed fascists
» If nobody can lie, then truth ceases to exist
» This pro-life activist has a foolproof plan to reduce abortion numbers, and it involves only a *little* racism
» This is on tomorrow, in which I talk about diversity and stuff (see how effortlessly I communicate with the lay public)
» Begging-the-question, conjecture, anecdote, false equivalence, and a non sequitur: those five reasons for raising the Digital Age of Consent
» Reproductive rights in Ireland will lead to “normalisation of sex slavery”, “euthanasia”, and “the killing of political opponents”, according to local councillor who is not exaggerating at all
» I will be attempting to “Move psychological science forward” in Nottingham on Wednesday night
» John Taylor is definitely NOT a racist 😉
» Why is reminding everyone of Trump’s “Grab ’em” comments suddenly risqué?
» So apparently George Soros “can’t stand” Ireland’s anti-abortion clause because, well, obvs
» It’s the 21st century and Irish parliamentarians still want priests in charge of sex education
» Ten years on and, quelle surprise, that child-abusing EU dystopia hasn’t happened (yet)
» “I just decided to just Google what the Bible says about vaccinations…”
» Gee, I don’t know, is it just me, or could this infographic possibly be a little gender-biased?
» Trump iffy re Bolton’s mustache, but apparently okay with the lying
» “I wish Marie Louise O’Donnell would stay away from politics”
» Jordan Peterson’s re-heated obscurantism
» Dead man walking. And breathing. And appealing (unsuccessfully) against being declared ‘dead’
» Pence photographed with gay man before taking him to private room for secret rendezvous
» Um Starbucks, could you not?
» Stephen Hawking RIP
» Stephen Hawking RIP
» Donald Trump is a true Belieber
» Man who introduced topless Irish dancing in the 1990s bemoans sartorial inelegance of today’s youth
» Question: How deranged are the NRA? Answer: *This* deranged…
» It was kind of funny until they mentioned “bullet crowns”
» Right here is where you start paying. In sweat…
» Standing up for Bright Club
» My ‘Montgomery J. Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence’ has finally arrived (Update: Donations urgently required)
» I went to the Natural History Museum in Dublin, and took some pictures
» Go check out ‘NotTheScienceBit.net’
» Argument over toilet breaks down on (civil war) political lines
» Brian thinks chicken pox is normal, Harper is confused
» Microsoft pushes boundaries of keyboard design, at expense of user sanity
» Are you an exorcist? If so, call this number
» Anti-abortion parliamentarians avoid debate by hiding at the back of the room
» This is another test post
» This is a test post
» No, no, no, no, no
» “Are psychics the new psychologists?”
» Rethinking Psychology in Cork
» World tour continues
» The dead hand of democracy
» That story on sex differences in the brain, line by line
» Todd Akin’s empirical question
» ‘Rethinking Psychology’ is now available
» This new European-wide public science engagement initiative is worth a look
» Political science
» On alcohol guidelines and social desirability
» Who let the dogmas out?
» It’s Crazy-Amazon-Algorithm time again!
» It would be funny if it were true that 11% of Americans think HTML is an STD. But it isn’t. (True, that is. Or an STD.)
» Not Safe For Work…
» Attractive women latest: New findings
» The following blog post contains references to trigger warnings that attention-seeking contrarians may find upsetting
» Why ‘Inside Out’ is kind of interesting
» What’s the deal with that Swiss government homeopathy report?
» “Life Matters” (Because it just does)
» Eclipsetography 101
» “The Point of Psychology (and How it Gets Missed)”: Director’s cut
» Regarding the point of psychology…
» Where Waldo is (or, The science behind why journalists now think there is a science to be had behind everything)
» Surprisingly, *all* these news stories are genuine
» Forthcoming: “The Point of Psychology (and How it Gets Missed)”
» Some pieces and bits
» There’s not much point complaining about the science in Interstellar
» Forthcoming: “Adventures in Science Communication”
» What ‘Science By Press Conference’ looks like
» Pareidolia special: “Farmer denies wrongdoing as goat born with human face” (Spoiler: Not really human face)
» I’m not saying Greenfield’s a pseudoscientist. I point to her pseudoscientific reasoning. That is all
» That story on sex differences in the brain, line by line
» My battle against dry eye: I never thought things would get *this* bad…
» ‘Miracle’ cure removes cancer, HIV, autism. By killing you
» Suarez: Nature or nurture? BBC expert unable to specify, quoted extensively nonetheless
» I like TBUTs and I cannot lie
» Bandwagon latest: ‘Science news’ with tenuous World Cup relevance doing the rounds right now
» Neanderthal man is 150 years old today, and Irish (kind of)
» Breaking: UFO not flying, not unidentified, still an object
» Marriage causes germs (kind of)
» Results being “due to” causes somehow doesn’t imply causality
» White = lovely = handsome
» Keep away from camels; crowds (of humans) okay
» Ukraine, where *are* you?
» “How to Not Die”
» Einstein = Mylie Cyrus squared. Or something
» The homeopathic drugs DO work. Because they’re drugs
» True that
» The passengers on MH370 deserve better than this
» Stop Press: Some kids are crap at computer games, one chimp is not
» Won’t somebody *please* think of the validity?
» Telling parents how vaccines are safe makes them *less* likely to vaccinate their kids
» “Should we ditch the meal and go out with these boys?”
» Just a few (i.e. 120) “gibberish” research papers redacted
» New Zambia soccer jersey features spermatozoa design, presumably not on purpose
» ‘Science Diet.’ You know, for geeks
» Po Chai Pills: May contain stuff, etc.
» Who cares about these darned rabbits?
» Being bitten by a cat causellates depression
» How to Survive a Plane Crash (Non-survival also a possibility)
» Half-full glass latest: Americans beginning to accept heliocentrism
» “Adultery could save your marriage”, or “How to churn out science news by riffing on Valentine’s Day”
» Polarity. It’s a useful concept
» How good is Google’s semantic processing of our dumb questions?
» Come back ‘Weekly World News’, all is forgiven
» Why give penguins antidepressants when they don’t even work?
» Fretting about Twitter is eroding this guy’s ability to think for himself
» So I got this email from Noam Chomsky today, looking for my opinion…
» “On Correlations and Bias”
» What (non-Greek) scientists say
» ‘Smart bra’ only works if you’re stupid enough to believe it
» Science news latest: Adam and Eve “real”, Noah’s Ark “actually round”
» Favourites List (24.01.14)
» Scientists now working on the perfect joke (Not a joke)
» Zoology special: Entirely justified post featuring talking squirrel
» Reverse the Earth’s rotation? I’d want to get off
» All-natural produce is full of (eek!) chemicals!
» Namaste!
» Favourites List (17.01.14)
» Sports drink ad fuels complaints, producer ordered to water down claim
» Aliens latest: Iran claims US run by extra-terrestrial Nazis, Washington Post frets about foreign relations
» Women in science <3 pink! XXX
» The Death of a Disease: India Eradicates Polio
» “Scientists distort the publication process, not editors”
» Blame Canada (for those extra-terrestrials walking among us)
» “Polar vortex”? That’s what they WANT you to believe…
» Evidence for time travel on Twitter is not there, unsurprisingly
» Top Ten Popular Posts on The Science Bit, 2013
» Reading this can damage your health
» Trajectory of poop and wee is non-random. I knew it!
» Yes, it’s a list! Five Profoundest Scientific Breakthroughs of 2013
» NSFW? Oh, go on then
» Snakes, ladders…everyone’s a winner!
» My kingdom for a zorse (kind of)
» »Yuletide Archive: Scientific advice for Christmas (Original Soundtrack), Part 2
» »Yuletide Archive: Christmas–When will the madness end?!
» »Yuletide Archive: Scientific advice for Christmas (Original Soundtrack), Part 1
» »Yuletide Archive: “Insert Yuletide Pun Here”
» Embarrassing scenes from science history: Apartheid in ’85 “not all bad”…methodologically speaking
» Favourites List (29.11.13)
» Favourites List (22.11.13)
» Now THIS really *is* in the genes
» Halloween MRI Special: Guts, Brain, Skeleton, etc (in fact, *my* guts, brain, skeleton, etc)
» A long and tedious blog post about scientific publishing
» Knowing me, knowing you (Eureka!)
» Sex + Everlasting life = Science!
» New research reveals same findings as old research
» How to predict the future
» American Psychological Association promotes pseudotherapies. Again.
» Forthcoming: Master of Delusion
» Web sight
» “Psychology’s Starting Positions”
» Peurile? Moi?
» Forthcoming: On value systems, science, and psychology
» Bad things are bad for you. As are good things.
» “Psychology’s one-sided coin”
» Correlation? Causation? YOU decide! (It’s as good an approach as any…)
» New rules for cosmetics advertising: Must contain science?
» Forthcoming: Psychology’s optimistic bias and the undermining of science
» This picture’s so hilarious, I thought I’d post it to my blog
» Overweight people have lower death risk…#yesterdaysnewstoday
» Pseudoscience class. For free!
» Beware the number ‘13’ (Official Government Advice)
» Christmas: When will the madness end?!
» Keeping it light
» At last: “Science Bit–The MOVIE!”
» Chief Scientific Advisor gets the chop: Getting DNA backwards not the reason
» Obligatory Halloween tie-in: Ghost spotted at football match actually a man
» To coin a phrase…
» Guess what: Cancer vaccines don’t cause cancer
» Todd Akin’s empirical question
» Quick media round-up is quick
» Be careful where you put that paywall
» Are conservatives less intelligent? Let’s ask a liberal…
» Forthcoming: On ‘The Written Word’
» Remember, there are no right answers…
» Working the crowd
» Galway nuked, radiation fireball blasts Athlone 🙁
» Headline-spectrum of the day: Dino-apocalypse by ‘wind’
» Is there actually evidence for anti-ageing creams?
» Once more, with feeling: ‘Weather’ is NOT ‘climate’
» Euphemistic congress
» Aside: More on the science of college exams
» Water on the brain
» If it smells right, do it/him/her
» Homeopathy, vaccination, autism: Together again
» Cancer: Misinformation is a risk factor too
» Happy Meals make you unhappy? Not so fast…
» Chocolate keeps you thin? Fat chance!
» I’ve decided to do my bit for homeopathy awareness…
» Personality goes a long way…toward making you sick
» One year in: The Science Bit’s greatest hits
» Want to lose weight? Hint: Do NOT eat chocolate cake
» How to argue illogically: Tony’s ten top tips
» Scientific literacy on the rise (Must put a stop to that then…)
» The costs of complementary medicine
» L’Oréal are at it again
» EXCLUSIVE: Britain facing boom in dodgy surveys
» It’s official! Internet overuse causes brain damage! Oh wait…no, it doesn’t…
» “Atheists die first”?
» That sensational Kindle bargain: UPDATE (includes rant)
» Scientific advice for Christmas (Original Soundtrack), Part 2
» Archive: “Insert Yuletide Pun Here”
» Are Cambridge University Press now promoting Scientology?
» Scientific advice for Christmas (Original Soundtrack), Part 1
» The Science of Misunderstanding
» Let’s all laugh at this guy, and his ignorance
» Forthcoming: Cork Skeptics in the Castle…
» Who let the pseudoscientists out?
» Seven billion Earthlings: So what’s the problem?
» What women want…to be exploited by capitalists
» Kindle bargain: Whopping discount on science publishing sensation!
» “Marriage saves lives!” (Well, it has a nice ring to it…)
» No, you are NOT worth it
» Shock! ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ is scientifically implausible
» “Extraordinary people, ordinary evidence”
» See no evil, hear no evil…
» Six odd Irish UFO sightings
» Big fat liars
» Floss for fertility? Really?
» An age-old problem: Public relations as science
» Stop the spread of the ecological fallacy
» Wake up and smell the…woahhh!
» Sit down while I explain…
» This week’s carcinogen: Your mobile phone
» Why is this paper still cited?
» Talking science with Scibernia
» “Racecardgate” on Storify
» On your breast behaviour
» When correlation does not imply “casualness”
» A study not worth its salt?
» It’s true, college is a rat race
» Towards a quantum Theory of Everything (including dirty dishes)
» Politico.ie covers “The Babel Fish”
» The Babel Fish Dilemma: Talking Science with Non-Scientists
» Alcohol causes cancer? If you assume so, yes
» “Atheists die first”: CNN’s “expert” fights back
» A fishy tale: Omega-3, Alzheimer’s, and IQ
» Superfast “supermoon” U-turn by the Daily Mail
» “Radiation is good for Japan”: Coulter’s case dissected
» Reiki, cancer, and the problem of informed consent
» When is a nuclear meltdown not a nuclear meltdown?
» Can geography affect depression treatment?
» The Irish Times: Promoting homeopathy, endangering children?
» The BMA’s dodgy claim about British GPs and CAM
» Right-wingers are better looking, study doesn’t show
» How not to perform genetic engineering
» The science of tea: News-reporting as PR
» “Pregnant thanks to acupuncture”
» ‘Science News’ and Football: Together at last
» Do polling locations influence election outcomes?
» “Menopause relief: Do not use if pregnant”
» Emergency contraception: Pragmatics, politics, and (just) a little science
» Views on the Homeopathic Emergency Room
» Breast milk, genes, and IQ
» Football manager Ian Dowie, a loss to chemical engineering?
» On jargon
» Creation myth…
» Welcome!
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