Shock waves in the human sciences! Six more of Brian Wansink’s published papers are being retracted, Cornell University announced September 20 , bringing the total to 13, and the professor has resigned in disgrace. It is not just scientific peers who are affected as Brian Wansink’s flawed methodology is exposed and his papers are withdrawn from journals. Millions of ordinary […]
Read more Distinguishing Experts from Imposters has always carried a lively edge when their conclusions matter in the real world. Yet it’s still a bit of a novelty when views get applause simply because they reject experts! “Those bully experts, telling the rest of us a lot of stuff — just ’cause they actually know! How unfair!” If […]
Read more Until this very moment I hadn’t realized exactly what’s been missing in my TOK classes. Zombies! I’ve been missing zombies. For years I’ve introduced terms such as “justification”, “counter-argument” and “refutation”. For years I’ve compared areas of knowledge on the basis of whether their knowledge claims could be tested, and whether and why people in […]
Read more Ideas can be treated at different scales. Anyone writing a paper or preparing to teach a course knows that – and Theory of Knowledge teachers most certainly do! Knowledge questions zoom skyward to such broad levels of overview that they can temporarily scale everything but the strongest contours of knowledge right out of sight. Today, […]
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