Skepticism

Learning how to be skeptical, to think critically

A conversation with vaccine hesitancy

2021-06-242021-06-24 by drricky

Excerpted. [VaccineHesitantFriend]: I completely understand that. We are lucky to be here in the US. And I’m doing my part…

2020-05-01 by drricky

Remdesivir is an experimental antiviral drug made by the company Gilead. Designed to act against the RNA driven RNA polymerase…

2018-09-062018-09-07 by drricky

On 5 Sept 2018, the NCAA Research team tweeted out this chart : It reports the average core high school…

2018-07-182018-07-18 by drricky

The website Beachvolleyballspace covered the recent FIVB Gstaad Major with an article celebrating the winners, the currently top ranked Canadian…

2018-06-202018-06-26 by drricky

In an earlier posting on detecting the signs of pseudoscience, I quoted an article which mentions unfalsifiability as a property.…

2018-06-072018-06-07 by drricky

In a recent discussion with BJ Leroy of USA Volleyball, I encountered a paper by Bailey et al (2018) published…

2018-03-062018-03-10 by drricky

Today was one of the election days in Texas. As a primer for the reader who is unfamiliar with the…