Monday, July 27, 2020

Discrete Hilbert Space, the Born Rule, and Quantum Gravity

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This is a new paper which I only recently found the time to write up, although I have been thinking about the ideas off and on for some t...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: "chilling academic freedom"

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From the FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS IN EDUCATION: "FIRE’s mission is to defend and sustain the individual rights of students and ...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Genetic architecture of complex traits and disease risk predictors

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The published version of the paper below is now available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-68881-8 Genetic architecture of comple...
Sunday, July 12, 2020

The Ideological Corruption of Science (Lawrence Krauss in the Wall Street Journal)

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Theoretical Physicist Lawrence Krauss writes in the Wall Street Journal. WSJ : In the 1980s, when I was a young professor of physics and as...
Thursday, July 09, 2020

Wall Street Journal: Moral Panic at MSU

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Professor Cesario and co-authors have retracted their PNAS paper Officer characteristics and racial disparities in fatal officer-involved sh...
Sunday, July 05, 2020

"Preposterously Flimsy" -- podcast interview on Twitter Mob and MSU Moral Panic

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"Steve Hsu is professor of theoretical physics at Michigan State University. Until recently, he was vice president for research and ...
Thursday, June 25, 2020

Wall Street Journal on the Twitter Mob Attack and MSU Moral Panic

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I've added some comments in [ ..brackets.. ] to the article excerpt below. More background . WSJ : ‘We are scientists, seeking truth,...
Friday, June 19, 2020

Resignation

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President Stanley asked me this afternoon for my resignation. I do not agree with his decision, as serious issues of Academic Freedom and Fr...
Monday, June 15, 2020

Support Freedom of Ideas and Inquiry at MSU

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These are letters of support sent on my behalf to the MSU President: presidentstanley@msu.edu Several are deep, detailed scholarly documen...
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Saturday, June 13, 2020

Manifold Episode Zero

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The Twitter mob has a petition up, with fake signatures including one from Corey Washington, my Manifold co-host and friend of 30 years! ...
Friday, June 12, 2020

Twitter Attacks, and a Defense of Scientific Inquiry

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I have not responded to these nasty Twitter attacks , but unfortunately they have gotten enough traction that I feel I need to respond now. ...
Thursday, June 11, 2020

Warren Hatch on Seeing the Future in the Era of COVID-19: Manifold Episode #50

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Steve and Corey talk to Warren Hatch, President and CEO of Good Judgment Inc. Warren explains what makes someone a good forecaster and how...
Thursday, June 04, 2020

Leif Wenar on the Resource Curse and Impact Philosophy -- Manifold Episode #49

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Corey and Steve interview Leif Wenar, Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University and author of Blood Oil. They begin with memories of ...
Tuesday, June 02, 2020

Re-Post: Joe Cesario on Police Decision Making and Racial Bias in Deadly Force Decisions (Manifold Episode #11)

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Re-posting this because of its relevance to the terrible events in Minneapolis. Manifold Episode #11: Joe Cesario on Police Decision Makin...
Thursday, May 28, 2020

Michael Kauffman: Cancer, Drug Development, and Market Capitalism (Manifold Podcast #48)

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Note : the part of the conversation I found most interesting -- venture and capital markets aspects of drug discovery, complexity and scal...