Interesting Links for 19-05-2017

[andrewducker]

'American Gods' showrunners on $2 million Crocodile Bar mistake

(tags: neilgaiman tv money )

FactCheck Q&A: Should we nationalise the railways?

(tags: transport rail trains uk )

Yorkshire Party manifesto launch wants county parliament

(tags: uk politics )

Daryl Bem Proved ESP Is Real. Which Means Science Is Broken

(tags: research science fail psychology statistics )

North Sea Wind Power Hub: A giant wind farm to power all of north Europe

(tags: windpower ocean europe )

Who takes their dad to court for not handing over their lottery winnings?

(tags: money family wtf )

Tory manifesto: Thousands of foreign spouses to be barred entry to UK as income limit increased

(tags: immigration Conservatives uk money OhForFucksSake )

This is pretty much exactly how programming works.

(tags: programming comic funny )

Female 'Overwatch' player was harassed for 16 minutes — so she uploaded it to YouTube

(tags: abuse gaming misogyny OhForFucksSake )

Omar, perhaps world's longest cat, finds internet fame

(tags: cats )

Estate of Edward Albee Yanks Rights to Production Over Casting of Black Actor

(tags: race theatre )

21 Things You Find Out When You Become A Stripper

(tags: sexwork )

Wonder Woman first reactions are very positive

(tags: comics movies )

What questions does a 4-year-old ask Google?

(tags: children google )

Comments

Albee

[danieldwilliam]

Oh, that's a murky issue that Viginia Woolf gets you in to isn't it?

[calimac]

I read the entirety of that "he proved ESP is real" article. Turns out he didn't.

[momentsmusicaux]

I am both grateful and sorry for you. I started reading, but I find 'documentary'-style articles horribly boring to read, when all I really want is the summary (and my internet-faffing time is limited). I was about to post here to ask if anyone has a TLDR of it, but you've provided one. Thank you! :)

[calimac]

To be fair, it's more complicated than that. The article shows that science is "broken" in the sense that standards of rigor in psychological sample-testing are insufficiently rigorous, which is how the ESP article got into the literature.

But that's not a patch on how broken science would be if ESP were proven to be real. All kinds of what we thought were laws of nature and of causality would have to be thrown out if it were. That's what the headline had led me to suspect, and the article seemed to be heading that way, but in the end it didn't.

[andrewducker]

If they had _actually_ proven ESP to be correct I think it would be massive front page news. Probably to the point that I wouldn't bother reporting it, as everyone would already know about it.

[calimac]

Maybe. But if this guy was going to play it that way, the headlines would have already happened when he first announced it. He had at least as much evidence in his study as Pons and Fleischmann, and they got huge headlines. But that's because they announced it in a press conference. This guy wrote a paper with a tentative "I think I've found ..." air to it, and let his colleagues puzzle over it. Had it been real, it would have played out much more slowly, and the article leaves open the possibility that it is, they just don't have the evidence as firmly as they thought.