Reupload because I put up the wrong video earlier!
VICE News recently wrote a story about a journal article in PLoS One that examined various fit hacks. The article concluded that pantyhose was the best fit hack. There are all sorts of problems with this hilarious study...
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References:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/akvng5/mask-hacks-better-fit-research
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0262830
Pardon being away for a bit! I'm back with a humdinger, a new study showing the palpable bias in social sciences!
References:
https://x.com/Theory_Society/status/2033604101896806649
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11186-026-09690-2
Science magazine has a contributor finally starting to ask good questions. How would you answer them?
References:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aeg1977
https://www.aaas.org/news/task-force-releases-vision-american-science-and-technology
There's been lots of discussions about universities, but what are the underlying virtues a university should encourage in students?
References:
https://hxstem.substack.com/p/are-bad-researchers-bad-people
A study in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health examines the fraction of children with asthma that is attributable to gas stoves in the home. Interesting take, but there are a few things worth pointing out.
The YouTube version of the episode will be up tomorrow morning!
Article reviewed in this episode:
Population Attributable Fraction of Gas Stoves and Childhood Asthma in the United States
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/20/1/75
Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!):
https://uppbeat.io/t/mojo/rebel
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The new one on the actions of “Affinity Groups” is quite interesting, but you can only get it as a paying subscriber! Go check it out! https://open.spotify.com/episode/0f9q192oAAwAiKCjCC6Edv?si=0b_flngGQliFxK7I_d5N6Q
There will be no content over Thanksgiving week since I'm off on vacation. Happy Thanksgiving all!
