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• The replication crisis in science has just begun. It will be big. - Fabius Maximus website

  Summary: After a decade of slow growth beneath public view, the replication crisis in science begins breaking into public view. First psychology and biomedical studies, now spreading to many other fie...

• Daniel Davies’ insights about predictions can unlock the climate change debate - Fabius Maximus

  Summary: Here are three powerful insights by Daniel Davies about predictions by experts. He used them to predict the outcome of the Iraq War. This post applies them to the public policy debate about c...

• Ahmed Rashid explains why ISIS attacked Paris & where they learned to do so - Fabius Maximus website

  Summary: Amidst the mad cries for reprisals to the Paris attacks, cries for a wider war and more bloodshed, a few voices speak rationally about the causes of the attacks, our foe’s reasoning, and like...

• Mother Jones sounds the alarm about global warming! This time about the north pole. | Fabius Maximus

  Summary:  Americans' gullibility, our receptiveness to pleasing propaganda, dominates the politics of both Left and Right (although to different degrees). Of course, since both factions draw from the ...

• Women dominate the ranks of college graduates. What’s the effect on America? | Fabius Maximus

  This will be one of the greatest social science experiments ever conducted.  After WWII nations tested free markets vs. government-dominated systems.  Europe, North America, and East Asia using varian...

• How bad is our bloat of generals? How does it compare with other armies? | Fabius Maximus website

  Summary:  As a followup to yesterday's powerful rant by Richard A Pawloski (Captain, USMC, retired) about our bloated corps of senior generals, today we look at the actual numbers.  They show that Paw...