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Monday, November 19, 2007 - Posts

  • Evolutionary Psychology: Bad Science, Bad Journalism, or Both?


    Our evolutionary psychology discussion has had me on the lookout for stories that seem particularly ridiculous. And on Fox News today, the morning hosts mentioned a study that purports to show that gentlemen preferred blondes as far back as the Ice Age. Read More...
  • Deterrence Unplugged


    Melinda, I think your instinct about the deterrent effect of the death penalty is about the same as mine. The Liptak article is incredibly interesting but makes the same point I learned in law school: Deterrence works if there is a reasonable chance the Read More...
  • EMILY's List Goes to Iowa


    I really don't know what to make of the study Morgan posted about on Friday. More maternal stress, fewer male babies—it's one of those findings that seems too funny to be true, and enormously entertaining. Meanwhile, EMILY's List is off to Iowa, to stump Read More...
  • Wronged Wife to the Rescue


    I am totally riveted by today's Washington Post story about the Baltimore cop convicted of killing his young mistress a dozen years ago—based on a discredited method of bullet-matching and the testimony of an "expert'' who faked his credentials, misrepresented Read More...
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