Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Nice piece.
- CaptDMO | 08/03/2011 @ 16:31Concise(ish)
In My Humble Opinion, One of Mensa’s BEST monthly cover stories was emblazened
with (para) OK, you’re smart. So what?
The Independent Institute, Also IMHO a fairly bright bunch of folk that ASSUME their published “papers” (articles, essays, whatever) will be subject to constant peer review by OTHER fairly bright folk, had a pretty good piece on (para) “the ignorance inherent in in-breeding of Alma Mater chauvinism, and intellectual snobbery(elitism) as it enters into the Socialist/Fascist bureaucracy” in their quarterly review, last summers I think.
Just sayin’
Thanks!
I could do a whole post — a whole book, a whole series of books — on the flaws and bad assumptions embedded in the “peer review” process, but I’ll just mention the biggest and most damaging: since “peers” all think alike, you can get the most ridiculous crap imaginable through the “peer review” process if you tell them what they want to hear. E.g. the Sokal Hoax, or Michael Bellesiles’ The Arming of America.
[That one was even more egregious, as it was his dissertation (I believe), and so his research and methodology should have been routinely scrutinized for years before he got to the publication stage. But since “everybody knows” that guns are a (probably latently homoerotic) obsession of the troglodyte reich wing, nobody bothered to see if his “sources” actually, you know, existed.]
- Severian | 08/04/2011 @ 06:36