James Lyons-Weiler, PhD

Europe is experiencing a measles outbreak.  So far, there have been 41,000 cases, with 37 deaths attributed to measles infection....

Some have claimed that using Bayes’ theorem instead of null hypothesis testing can help solve the replication crisis, and, the...

THE PRESS has pundits that answer to corporations for advertising revenue.  So for the last week, we’ve had to read...

MEDICAL SCIENCE proceeds along a hierarchy of evidence; often, patients are studied individually (case studies), or a small collection of...

THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE is to many a collection of old thoughts in dusty books and journals, logical meanderings and...

WHEN HISTORIANS REVIEW THE EARLY 21st Century, the will note that a seismic shift occurred in which the People of...

A RECENT NY TIMES opinion piece shed bright light on an issue that has bother me since I decided to...

A man loses his keys on a street.  Another man comes along and asks him where he lost them. The man says,...

Lyons-Weiler 2018. Conjecture 1: For every N, there exists at least one N+1 dimensional regularly shaped object that has a...

WHEN: HUMANS officially set computers (or, more precisely) computer programs on their own journey of design, and the algorithms invent...

OBJECTIVITY in science can be corrupted in the design, execution or interpretation of studies. In systematic reviews, and “official” government...

By Donna Jo Kazee Are We Really Hearing “All Sides” on the Autism Prevalence Issue? As I sit here reflecting...