The Red Team of Science

Throwing spaghetti at the wall

A familiar genetic finding makes it into The New York Times

Oct 1 • Alex Byrnes

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August 2026

Poll finds scientific methods are adopted in order of preference

38% of professors don’t know the term replication

Aug 26 • Alex Byrnes

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Psychology is not mostly fine

Astral Codex endorses justice delayed on the replication crisis

Aug 7 • Alex Byrnes

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Public Health and the Right to Reason

Referenda on Tony Fauci

Aug 5 • Alex Byrnes

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July 2026

The University as Territory

The Vanderbilt Report is another attempt to storm the gates in a war over nonsense

Jul 22 • Alex Byrnes

March 2026

The missing link

A poll finds that priming research might be bad enough to save science

Mar 16 • Alex Byrnes

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It always ends with numbers

How NIH’s project to save neuroscience education is switching sides

Mar 4 • Alex Byrnes

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December 2025

One of the most dangerous ideas in science was a misunderstanding

It's only getting more popular

Dec 8, 2025 • Alex Byrnes

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November 2025

Psychologists think there's a crisis in psychology

Results from a new poll

Nov 24, 2025 • Alex Byrnes

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Cognitive dissonance and a truly impossible assumption

The many unopened boxes of psychology

Nov 12, 2025 • Alex Byrnes

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Physics defends itself

There's not as much math as you'd expect

Nov 3, 2025 • Alex Byrnes

October 2025

Physics has all the ingredients for scientific crisis

It turns out all you need is money and a googol of hypotheses to write up

Oct 20, 2025 • Alex Byrnes

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