Ghostwriting by federal judges (a way to violate disclosure rules) as the opposite of plagiarism.

We’re used to seeing plagiarism in public life—Joe Biden’s the most famous culprit, but there are also various German politicians, as well as Harvard law professor and almost-Supreme-Court-judge Laurence Tribe. Some Yale law professors too, I think. And lots of … Continue reading

Given that 30% of Americans believe in astrology, it’s no surprise that some nontrivial percentage of influential American psychology professors are going to have the sort of attitude toward scientific theory and evidence that would lead them to have strong belief in weak theories supported by no good evidence.

Fascinating article by Christine Smallwood, “Astrology in the age of uncertainty”: Astrology is currently enjoying a broad cultural acceptance that hasn’t been seen since the nineteen-seventies. The shift began with the advent of the personal computer, accelerated with the Internet, … Continue reading