Sense and Nonsense About Race

Sense and nonsense about significance testing

Throughout most or all of the empirical sciences, significance testing is one of the most widely used statistical procedures. Unfortunately, it is also widely abused. In recent years, an increasing number of authors have expressed concern over such abuse; see, e.g., the book by Ziliak and McCloskey (2008) who focus mainly on economics, and Kruschke (2010) who focuses on cognitive sciences. In a...

Sense and nonsense about the Fenn effect.

One of the most influential papers in muscle physiology was published by W. O. Fenn (J. Physiol. London 58: 175-203) in 1923. Fenn determined the quantitative relationship between muscle energy liberation and work performance. Despite the importance of this work, the implications of Fenn's observations are sometimes misunderstood. In this review article, Fenn's experiments are reexamined and th...

Common Sense and Nonsense

The irrepressible Bernard E. Rollin has written a lively, provocative, and scholarly book on several pivotal bioethical issues in nonhuman animal research. Professor Rollin of Colorado State University asksand answers whether nonhuman animals think, feel, and suffer. Rollin asks whether the prevailing scientific justification for banning nonhuman animals is based on rational assessment of the i...

Genetic Explanations: Sense and Nonsense

Genetic Explanations: Sense and Nonsense

plied to scalar, electromagnetic, and spinorial fields in order to prepare the reader for understanding field interactions. The authors introduce the scattering matrix, FeynmanDyson diagrams, and the effective scattering cross section as general problems of field interactions. They examine divergence-free second order processes, using Compton scattering and Møller scattering as examples, and ca...