Category Archives: Schadenfreude

Shock as mathematics paper retracted because it has no scientific content

Posted on April 18, 2012 by

There is a blog called Retraction Watch dedicated to papers that are retracted from academic journals usually because the authors did something stupid or naughty (like cheat). Recently they highlighted a paper that has been retracted from the Elsevier Journal … Continue reading →

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Seeing red: colour preference and sporting success

Posted on October 4, 2011 by

Manchester United, of course, are the greatest football team to play in the greatest football league of them all, the English Premiership (formerly the First Division). Liverpool, now sadly in terminal decline, come a close second. What do they have … Continue reading →

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The LSE and Dr Kanazawa

Posted on October 1, 2011 by

It is good that, belatedly, the London School of Economics, an otherwise distinguished institution that has so produced much great economics and so many great economists, has finally stood up for scholarship and academic values in the matter of Dr … Continue reading →

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