Until a few months ago, Nate Silver was a nerd hero. If you’ve never heard of him, perhaps you’ve heard of sabermetrics (or you’ve seen Moneyball, a movie about sabermetrics). Well, Silver ...
http://icbseverywhere.com/blog/2016/11/stop-pissing-on-nate-silver/
I really, really hate infographics. Really. They’re worse than memes. Well, I guess technically they are memes. They are notoriously inaccurate. They are usually agenda-driven and often spin fa...
http://icbseverywhere.com/blog/2015/12/sleep-bs-and-have-i-mentioned-that-i-despise-infographics/
A skeptical friend sent me an interesting link this week. The headline makes the bold claim that a study suggests that people who like black coffee are more likely to be psychopaths. I’m sure y...
http://icbseverywhere.com/blog/2015/10/does-dexter-like-his-coffee-black/
Note: This post also appears on Insight, the official blog of the Skeptic Society. A few months ago I wrote about the psychology of vaccine denial. In the post I discussed two publications, one o...
Today the Huff Post Weird News section reports that a man in Glasgow, Scotland has seen the face of God (the savior, to be precise) in a bathroom door. Of an Ikea. My last report on sightings of ...
http://icbseverywhere.com/blog/2015/06/jesus-update-he-shops-at-ikea-and-walmart/
Sometimes I wish that I didn’t have a nagging conscience so that I could make millions selling crap at a 6000% profit just by claiming that it does something it doesn’t. Unfortunately, I’d ...
http://icbseverywhere.com/blog/2015/05/a-new-bracelet-scam-that-will-take-a-bite-out-of-your-wallet/
When I saw the Washington Post headline “Internet searches are convincing us we’re smarter than we really are” in my Facebook feed yesterday, I was only a little bit skeptical. Most readers...
http://icbseverywhere.com/blog/2015/04/new-research-suggests-the-internet-makes-us-overconfident/
I don’t know if this could really be called “new”, but it’s a form of anti-intellectualism that usually goes unnoticed. I find it particularly frustrating because I so often see it often ...
By now, you’ve either wondered just what color the dress is or you’re living under a rock in the middle of a deserted island with no internet and the first thing you chose to read when you we...
In 1987 I worked as a receptionist in the real estate lending office of a savings and loan. A savings and loan, for those too young to remember, is a bit like a bank which invests most of it’s ...
http://icbseverywhere.com/blog/2015/02/for-entertainment-only-my-experience-with-a-party-psychic/