Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
September 12, 2022
‘Prebunking’ on YouTube in the Fight Against Misinformation
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Can a Mathematical Model Spot a Liar?
Besides our own critical faculties, is there a mathematical model that could help us unravel disinformation? Dorje C. Brody suggests there may be.
There Is No Proof of Rampant Anti-Semitism in University Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Offices
The right-wing Heritage Foundation has accused university Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) offices of spreading anti-Semitism on campuses, but its recently issued […]
Going Around in Circles with Long COVID
Readers of Social Science Space may recall that Dr. Jeremy Devine suddenly became the best-know psychiatry resident North America when he published […]
Is the Sunk Cost Fallacy ‘First Doing Harm’ in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
In the United States, government health agencies consider chronic fatigue syndrome as “a serious, chronic, complex, and multisystem disease,” rather than a psychological condition. That view is is not held everywhere.
Finding Fault with Faux Facts
No matter how exquisite the details, it is important to separate fact from folklore – which should not require cross examination.
When Ignorance is Anything But Bliss
David Canter considers the tragic implications of people not understanding what they are told by politicians and experts.
What I Have Learned from Social Science
Ziyad Marar, Sage’s president of global publishing, reflects on how his career and his studies of psychology, linguistics and philosophy leave him thinking a social science imagination benefits us as individuals and improves society more generally, especially in times of upheaval and reconfiguration.
Confirmation Bias Is a Helluva Drug
We expect to see confirmation bias play an active role in the politics, where there is a satisfying emotional payoff from assuming the worst of the other side. We do not expect the same phenomenon among highly educated professionals, especially in their seemingly well researched publications. And yet …
