Thursday, August 12, 2021

A New Case of Very Large Brain Damage and Normal Mental Function

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In this blog I have discussed many cases of normal or near-normal mental function despite massive brain damage. For example, in the post her...
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Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Study Group Sizes, Neuroscience and COVID-19

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On this blog I have frequently complained about the way-too-small study group sizes used so often in neuroscience studies.  This is one of t...
Thursday, August 5, 2021

Imaging of Dendritic Spines Hint That Brains Are Too Unstable to Store Memories for Decades

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Scientists have very fancy equipment for examining brains at very high resolution. But no microscopic examination of a brain has ever proven...
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Saturday, July 24, 2021

Experimental Evidence for ESP Is Well-Replicated

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While examing the Science subreddit on www.reddit.com (www.reddit.com/r/science) the other day, I noticed there is a new   meta-analysis   a...
Saturday, July 10, 2021

Most Scientists Don't Follow Formal Evidence Standards, Unlike Judges

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The www.realclearscience.com site is a typical "science news" site: a strange mixture of hard fact, speculations, often-dubious op...
Sunday, July 4, 2021

When You Read "It Is Widely Believed," Suspect a Dubious Belief Custom

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We can classify several different types of scientific truth claims, along with some tips on how to recognize the different types.  ...
Thursday, June 17, 2021

Neuroscientists Keep Using Misleading Coloring in Brain Visuals

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In my July 2018  post " The Brain Shows No Sign of Working Harder During Thinking or Recall," I looked at quite a few brain scan ...