The Red Team of Science

Cognitive dissonance and a truly impossible assumption

The many unopened boxes of psychology

Nov 12 • 

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Physics defends itself

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

Nov 3 • 

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 • 

Alex Byrnes

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September 2025

Tylenol and autism

Why normal papers make history

Sep 29 • 

Alex Byrnes

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"Science has always been a bit shit"

It evolved that way

Sep 24 • 

Alex Byrnes

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Watching the watchmen at NIH

A FOIA mystery is solved

Sep 3 • 

Alex Byrnes

August 2025

A document request reveals NIH’s approach to the law

"The spirit of the FOIA"

Aug 25 • 

Alex Byrnes

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COVID origin may be simple

Each market is safe

Aug 11 • 

Alex Byrnes

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Updates on older posts

April to July 2025

Aug 5 • 

Alex Byrnes

July 2025

The politics of embarrassment: Part III

Universities are worth having

Jul 28 • 

Alex Byrnes

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The politics of embarrassment: Part II

Centralized open science

Jul 21 • 

Alex Byrnes

The politics of embarrassment

How Lakatos anticipated science's culture war

Jul 14 • 

Alex Byrnes

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