Naming after Names* Our current system: The Higgs boson is named for Peter Higgs, one of the theorists who predicted its existence....

(or, “On the Proper Use of Anecdotes”) According to most people, the pinnacle of scientific investigation is the randomized controlled...

(Note: Nearly all the literature on this topic is correlational, so we should be skeptical about causal explanations. Since that’s what...

In the old children’s TV show Lambchop’s Singalong, the adorable Lambchop and her woodland friends famously sang “The Song that Doesn’t...