Jim Coan

Here's another one: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... So basically, it seems @springernature.com requires clinical trials in Scientific Reports to adhere to rigorous standards, but you can still publish an uncontrolled study of a drug, with no registration, control, blinding or whatever.

Hi @springernature.com
How come this article got published in Scientific Reports despite not meeting any of the criteria you claim to use for clinical trials?
pubpeer.com/publications...
#autism

there are of course many examples of political constituencies that have in fact killed scores of children (en route to some other evil goal), but I can't offhand think of any historical examples of a political constituency organized for that specific purpose

This Was Inevitable AI gurus are not shocking, we already commodified spirituality

Wrote about Deepak Chopra’s new AI model, AI guru slop, and how none of this is really shocking because we already turned spirituality into a commodity.

houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/this-was-i...

It’s a really important issue and I’m grateful to you.

YouTube video by UC Faculty Behind the Scenes: How UC Faculty Beat Back Trump's Attacks

You may have heard that Trump’s extortion of University of California was defeated in court. But do you know who won this historic case? Spoiler: not a single UC administrator participated. It was all faculty members of the UC Faculty Associations and @aaup.org! Cc: @veenadubal.bsky.social

Misunderstanding analysis of covariance - PubMed Despite numerous technical treatments in many venues, analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) remains a widely misused approach to dealing with substantive group differences on potential covariates, particularly in psychopathology research. Published articles reach unfounded conclusions, and some statistics …

Love it. Reminds me of this classic: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11261398/

Perils of Partialing: Can Scholars Predict Residualized Variables' Nomological Nets? Objective Partialing is a statistical procedure in which the variance shared among two or more constructs is removed, allowing researchers to examine the unique properties of the residualized, parti...

Excited to share a Registered Report in J. of Personality looking at the “perils of partialing” – led by the Bluesky-less Leigha Rose with @drlynam.bsky.social and me. (1)

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I e also been known to start quoting Duck Amuck anywhere, anytime.

Hahaha me too—that exact thing!

Haha wow!!

The Terminator: a radio play for your entertainment A little radio play about really, terribly, bad therapy with Kate Bennis and Jim Coan

A little something @katebennis.bsky.social wrote, inspired by the improv and writing team, Nichols and May. I played the part of the freaked out therapy client and handled the audio recording. This is me acting,and warning: it’s not for kids! (Plus it’s hilarious!) open.substack.com/pub/katebenn...

So the FBI has launched a probe into Democratic lawmakers over their video clarifying a soldier’s responsibilities when given illegal military orders. Is the proper response: a) laugh, b) retch, c) reach for a copy of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, or d) all of the above?

There is no easier ethical test in the world than "should MBS's money buy him international respect."

Google Gemini and I reimagined it as a painting by Caravaggio.

I asked Gemini to reimagine this image as a Caravaggio painting.

The administration captured in one picture.

I just watched Paul McCartney play 2.5 hours of time capsule-worthy classics. My verdict is that he’s the greatest songwriter in the history of rock n roll.

Lord, this was good.

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

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Exhale…

This shit…that line About killing people in particular…would have made my father, who proudly served in the Army almost his entire life, throw up.

A spray-painted bronze statue titled “Best Friends Forever” showing Trump and Jeffrey Epstein holding hands was placed on the National Mall in front of the U.S. Capitol early Tuesday.

Somebody has to say it

Boy, that escalatored quickly

I may be biased, but I love this department! ❤️❤️❤️ Everyone should apply!

Have they brought the golden calf into the stadium yet?

Not just Unpopular! He's also the Most Unworthy-Unqualified-Unethical-Uneducated-Unprepared-Undemocratic-Unfortunate-Unhinged-Unjust-Unread-Unappealing-Unconscionable-Untrustworthy-Unscrupulous-Unstable-Unbearable-Unlikable-Unreliable-Unsound & Unctuous President in Modern American History. 🇺🇸 🙄