myth and science

Emotional Intelligence: Science and Myth

The Myth of Global Science

Scientific collaboration, in most cases, is seen as a joint action on a global scale that involves researchers from not just one region or one country but instead forming an international network of researchers. This type of epistemic communities builds up especially in the case of analytical modes of knowledge production. Rationales for a global science system are needs for complementary resou...

Myth, Confusion, and Science in Causal Analysis

As most students of causality know, the answer is of course, Yes; the M -graph model presented by Shrier (see also [2], p. 186, and [3]) provides a simple such example; the crude estimate in this example is bias-free, while PS methods, or any method that adjusts for the measured covariate (a collider), introduce new bias. In his reply [4], Rubin did not address Shrier’s question. To do so would...

African Origin of Olmecs: Science and Myth

The Kraken: when myth encounters science.

Hundreds of years ago, sailors were terrified by the Kraken, a dreadful sea monster capable of sinking ships and with a taste for human flesh. Today we know the legends of this monster were based on sightings of giant squids. This animal belongs to the genus Architeuthis and was the subject of many scientific studies. Despite its enormous size (up to 18m), the giant squid is astoundingly elusiv...

Marching for the myth of science

U S President Donald Trump has quickly become a major source of concerns and annoyance among scientists since he took office last year. His various actions and announcements—from barring scientists from various Muslim countries from entering the USA to his proposed budget cuts for research to his personnel decisions for federal agencies—have prompted scientists to take it to the streets in unpr...