A lot of people are not logical. When people aren't logical their beliefs are separate and polarized like fuses in a fusebox. They can be thrown any which way by the operator. Unless they're blown, I guess.

It can be interesting to imagine that myths are true. That doesn't make them any more true.

Maybe a Ph.D. is like a badge. A cop might finish academy and get a badge, but that doesn't say whether they're a good cop or a bad cop.

Three books (a book every 6 years and 8 months).
Twenty articles (an article every year).

One book (or article) that becomes a little well-known.
Hold down a teaching job in the meantime!

Component steps:

Submit article
Revision process
Publication

Submit book
Revision process
Publication

It's going to work because it's right. It's going to be right because I've been there.

My school's environment has been bothering me. I have figured it out. I had forgotten that, because of the nature of competition, many people here have cheated, used other students, or used their parents to get here. Now they are failing, or they are succeeding by using the same methods they used before.

Hard scientists. What's the deal with them, anyways? We all know that lots of them are antisocial geeks who can't get along with other people, partly because they are abrasive and partly because other people are jerks. In anger and fear they turn away from the social, which is distressing, and take refuge in what they define as "the scientific," which is nice and pat and doesn't play mind games with you or give you guilt trips; remind you of your sainted mother or hated father; pass you ov

People are terrible. Letter on Salon.com.

I read a book that I was assigned. It is advice on doing research. It said that researchers should be a community, and research is supposed to convince other researchers to change their minds, not so much to show them that they are wrong. But when regarding the things I am interested in, other researchers are to me wrong, and they do, to me, show the kinds of prejudices that I have never been able to reason away in real life people. I have only ever succeeded in forcing a change of mind.

I read the New Yorker every month in the last year of high school, and that is when I decided it was not very good. It's written by and for upper-class East Coast WASPs, people that want to be like them, and people that have been duped into believing that they are the only ones that can find truth.

"The rest of the world can pretend there is something else sensational going on if they want to but it isn't science." Thread

Physicists say

NPR is bad journalism. There, I said it. I had to say it. Okay.