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can cell phones fry your brain?
When the first cell phones went on sale, somebody, somewhere looked at those brick sized devices and said: “Holy crap, I bet this freaking thing gives you brain cancer!” So for the last few decades,...
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time.com goes after facebook
Time.com columnist Anita Hamilton doesn’t seem to like Facebook very much. She’s got catchy quotes and statistics that paint the social networking site’s users in a very bad light and she’s not afraid...
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when doing the right thing could backfire…
If you’ve been watching the news, you might be aware of a recent study that found something a bit odd in and around Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA. Children born primarily to educated and well off...
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how to drum up business with a bad study
Apparently, if you believe a Wired blogger, IT staff are woefully ignorant about their jobs and lack the skills for their daily tasks. A rather sad state of affairs, isn’t it? Well, that finding comes...
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psychologists, convenience samples, and really shoddy popular science writing
Psychology has occasionally been called "the study of college undergraduates" and while that would usually be a joke in the psych department, a few writers are raising red flags that it’s too common...
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what happens when you study a hot button problem
When you’re doing studies on controversial and explosive subjects, or even discussing them, a significant uptick in criticism isn’t just expected, it’s practically guaranteed. And few topics have been...
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