No, this isn’t a post about the incidence of anxiety disorders among scientists. The question I want to ask is more circumscribed: how much do scientists need worry about the possibility of the assumptions that make their research possible failing?
Here’s how this question came up. In response to my last post, in which I argued […]
Archive for June, 2006
How much should scientists worry?
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30 June 2006 |
20:45 |
musings |
4 Comments »
Neurons, blood flow, and their intimate relationship
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28 June 2006 |
16:27 |
neuroimaging |
2 Comments »
As a tangential follow-up the Bloom article and my post yesterday, Jonah Lehrer has a post today noting that Bloom failed to discuss the technical limitations of fMRI as another factor that should curb people’s enthusiasm for neuroimaging. While fMRI certainly has important technical limitations people should be aware of (low spatial and temporal resolution, […]
As a tangential follow-up the Bloom article and my post yesterday, Jonah Lehrer has a post today noting that Bloom failed to discuss the technical limitations of fMRI as another factor that should curb people’s enthusiasm for neuroimaging. While fMRI certainly has important technical limitations people should be aware of (low spatial and temporal resolution, […]
An unnecessary defense of neuroimaging (comment on Paul Bloom)
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27 June 2006 |
20:03 |
neuroimaging |
6 Comments »
Paul Bloom has an article in Seed today lamenting the sway brain imaging research holds over the public and media compared compared to other less-feted areas of psychology. The response in the blogosphere has been passively favorable, so I thought I’d try to provide a spirited defense of the opposite view. I should […]
Paul Bloom has an article in Seed today lamenting the sway brain imaging research holds over the public and media compared compared to other less-feted areas of psychology. The response in the blogosphere has been passively favorable, so I thought I’d try to provide a spirited defense of the opposite view. I should […]