Overheard In Providence

Yesterday the Wall Street Journal informed me that most scientific research is wrong. Specifically, Professor of Medicine John Ioannidis (plus two coauthors) recently published this study in The Journal of the American Medical Association. The paper examines 432 gender-based health claims in 77 articles found on PubMed. They concluded almost all of the claims were […]

I’m pretty surprised I missed this article in last week’s Science Times. It highlights the work of Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford known for the Simulation argument. He observed that humans are likely to one day produce highly complex computer simulations of the universe. These simulations would contain conscious humans. At that point, many […]