"Creed and Christmas music" is the new "peanut butter and chocolate." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpkr...

I don't think I've said this enough, but it bears repeating: OSF's new UI design is terrible. Thinking about switching to ResearchBox for future projects. Have any of you used it yet?: datacolada.org/130?trk=feed...

In the "Bullshitters Guide to the Galaxy," the answer to everything is 92, not 42.

This paper will be of interest to anyone who regularly conducts online survey research: www.surveypractice.org/article/1460...

"It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have." - James Baldwin

Just launched a Substack about the science of nonsense; why people believe wild conspiracy theories, fall for propaganda, and speak fluent corporate gibberish. If you're into science, critical thinking, or just need a break from the 🗑️🔥🌎, come hang out: bullshitology.substack.com

How good is your BS Detector? Are you sure? Check out my latest article, where I discuss how the Toupee Fallacy helps explain why, no matter how smart you are, you're probably not as good at spotting bullshit and bullshitters as you think. open.substack.com/pub/bullshit...

How good is your BS Detector? Are you sure? Check out my latest article, where I discuss how the Toupee Fallacy helps explain why, no matter how smart you are, you're probably not as good at spotting bullshit and bullshitters as you think. open.substack.com/pub/bullshit...

Confidence interval discussion time! The perfect opportunity to repost this blog post answering the question you haven’t dared to ask: www.the100.ci/2024/12/05/w...

Facebook out here bluntly reminding me what it feels like to get older:

If expertise has died, the wound was partly self-inflicted. Check out my latest article where I argue that some of today’s most popular science communicators have traded credibility for attention, sadly become BS-spewing hype machines: bit.ly/4gKsSIu

Your breakfast cereal’s origins have a link with dubious rectal therapy and a preoccupation with sexual purity. Bullshitologist @metacognishane.bsky.social digs into the adventures of Mr Kellogg: buff.ly/hIgYQlI

Health misinformation has plagued us for a long time. Those who do not remember our yogurt enema past are doomed to repeat it. bit.ly/3WxXOT2

Health misinformation has plagued us for a long time. Those who do not remember our yogurt enema past are doomed to repeat it. bit.ly/3WxXOT2

Gee, what could go wrong?

A little over a decade ago today, I was almost killed by a drunk driver on my way home from work. So, this is my annual reminder (whenever I can remember) to ask people to please not drink & drive. Smash chocolate milk or Sour Apple Ryse energy drinks instead.

„This happens when people who are legitimate experts in one specific scientific area suddenly start LARPing like they’re experts in every scientific area.“

If scientific experts have lost their authority and reputation, that is in large part the result of their own epistemic trespassing—orating confidently about topics they know little about—or peddling dubious claims, argues bullshitologist @metacognishane.bsky.social: buff.ly/lTHEK4b

If expertise has died, the wound was partly self-inflicted. Check out my latest article where I argue that some of today’s most popular science communicators have traded credibility for attention, sadly become BS-spewing hype machines: bit.ly/4gKsSIu

I am recruiting (Canadian🇨🇦) graduate students at York University for Fall 2026 in Social and Personality Psychology! If you are interested in misinformation, political polarization, and/or computational social science, I'd love to hear from you. Feel free to reach out with any questions.

If you ever want to see the "Dunning Kruger Effect" in action, just do a word search for it on LinkedIn and you'll instantly find dozens (if not hundreds) of examples of people confidently trying to explain it but getting it totally wrong. More here: jerz.setonhill.edu/blog/2020/04...

On Prolific, "we estimate that about 34% of online study participants use LLMs to answer open-ended questions atleast some of the time..." Seems like a very timely paper for behavioural scientists using online samples: osf.io/preprints/so... ; We really need more papers on this issue

Bullshitologist extraordinaire @metacognishane.bsky.social notes that, alarmingly, what his custom-made Corporate Bullshit Generator produces is indistinguishable from the genuine article, and zooms in on two popular types of BS—evasive and persuasive: buff.ly/gHZBY94

New post is up, discussing two recent examples of organizations trying to bullshit the public. Check it out when you get time! bullshitology.substack.com/p/down-the-c...

Few things smell more delicious than my kitchen when I'm making Carolina mustard sauce and Memphis BBQ sauce.

How much does the environment we’re raised in change how we see the world? Wonderful piece in @sciam.bsky.social by @norabradford.bsky.social, ft. an interview with @dorsaamir.bsky.social about our work on the 'cultural byproduct hypothesis'. www.scientificamerican.com/article/does...

Too much bullshit is being produced about the very topic of Bullshit, @metacognishane.bsky.social argues. And he comprehensively puts us right: buff.ly/CybLMe4

New Substack post is up! Check it out if you have time. "Bullshit: What it is, what it isn't, and what everyone gets wrong about Frankfurt" open.substack.com/pub/bullshit...

@paulbloomatyale.bsky.social @jowylie.bsky.social, and I are starting to study everyday revenge. Have you ever successfully got back at someone after being wronged? We would love to hear about it: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #cognition

The pancreatic cancer vaccine trials have been so promising, this would have been a literal life saver for so many and now its gone. I cant tell you how heart breaking this is. Horror after horror with this administration.

Just launched a Substack about the science of nonsense; why people believe wild conspiracy theories, fall for propaganda, and speak fluent corporate gibberish. If you're into science, critical thinking, or just need a break from the 🗑️🔥🌎, come hang out: bullshitology.substack.com

Apparently so. 🪦👨‍🔬📈 pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

Man died after fake deworming drug cancer claims bbc.com/news/article... "...no proven benefit for taking fenbendazole for treating cancer in humans". This BS pushed by online influencers & popular (very) manosphere podcasters. We can't let the bunk win!

How effective are user corrections on social media, and does adding a link to a fact check improve effectiveness? In piece led by @sachaltay.bsky.social we find corrections have small effects, adding a fact-check unlikely to make them more effective misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/the-... 1/6

One of the most valuable non-science courses I ever took was "Logic," an undergrad philosophy course. The sections on propositional logic, predicate logic, and logical fallacies (formal & informal) made me the pedantic ass that I am today. 😂🧠. 10/10 would highly recommend.

RFK JR’s crank organization Children’s Health Defense has bought itself a grievance-airing session inside in the US Senate. Witnesses are RFK Jr’s longtime antivax activist friends, including bullshit artists with retracted papers like Brian Hooker. www.hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittee...

New paper accepted! 🎉 Worried about the overuse of terms like “gaslighting”, “boundaries”, or “trauma”? @almagro.bsky.social and I are too. In this paper, we explore the epistemic and ethical cocerns of therapy-speak and how it relates to epistemic and affective injustice. Preprint ⬇️

And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you...

And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you...

There's a very strong negative correlation between LinkedIn posts that start with, "A lot of people have been asking me lately..." and the chances that anyone has ever actually asked them whatever they're claiming in the bullshit-soaked post that follows.

There's a very strong negative correlation between LinkedIn posts that start with, "A lot of people have been asking me lately..." and the chances that anyone has ever actually asked them whatever they're claiming in the bullshit-soaked post that follows.

(1/6) A small but annoying % of ppl use AI to generate fraudulent answers for open-ended survey Qs. So, in an effort to fight 🔥w/ 🔥, I asked GPT-o3 for some suggestions to help me identify LLM responses. Haven't tested them yet but some look promising. Here's a 🧵of what it came up with:

(1/6) A small but annoying % of ppl use AI to generate fraudulent answers for open-ended survey Qs. So, in an effort to fight 🔥w/ 🔥, I asked GPT-o3 for some suggestions to help me identify LLM responses. Haven't tested them yet but some look promising. Here's a 🧵of what it came up with:

Happy Canada Day to all my buddies/guys/friends up north!

Very interesting Pew Research findings on demographic voting patterns from the 2024 election: www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

Definitely an example of evasive bullshitting (i.e., "digressive circumlocution" or "answering without answering") but also seems like a special case of the "If-by-whiskey Fallacy": www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfalla...

Still unclear exactly which terminated NIH grants are and are not covered by this ruling - but incredibly good news. Many many thanks to the plaintiffs and lawyers involved.

Bessie Smith, but I'm pretty sure we can claim Usher and Kane Brown, too.

Has anyone ever made Frito Pie with Cheez-its instead of Fritos and if so, why haven't you opened your own restaurant yet because this idea I just had sounds delicious but I'm too lazy to make it.

Some papers are really good because they make just one point, but they make it really clearly — such as “Statistical Control Requires Causal Justification” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...