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Forensic psychiatry: critique of a critique.

To paraphrase Mark Twain, "Forensic psychiatrists are the only psychiatrists that blush or need to." Dr. Alan Stone attempts to measure forensic psychiatry with an ethical ruler and finds it sadly short. The Hinckley trial was the most recent example that evoked yet another reexamination of the insanity defense and the role of psychiatrists in that process. Although this trial is never specific...

A STATISTICAL CRITIQUE OF THE WITZTUM et al PAPER

This paper examines whether the significance test described in the paper Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis by Witztum, Rips and Rosenberg was carried out in accordance with accepted procedure, and whether the distance metric used accomplishes its stated purpose. In the light of that examination, it appears that the conclusion of the paper is unfounded.

Mosaic Brains? A Methodological Critique of Joel et al. (2015)

In their recent and widely publicized paper, Joel et al. (2015) made two main empirical claims. First, they claimed that the brains of individual males and females show very little internal consistency in their combination of " male-typical " and " female-typical " features, e.g.: " Our results demonstrate that even when analyses are restricted to a small number of brain regions (or connections...