In Today’s Conspiracy Theories, the Lack of Evidence Is the Evidence

The conspiracy theories of our time seem fixated on an absence of clues. By Peter C. Baker In Nick Shirley’s mega-viral YouTube videos alleging social-services fraud in Minnesota, the important piece ...
New Haven Register

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence – and that affects what scientific journals choose to publish

(THE CONVERSATION) Should you believe the findings of scientific studies? Amid current concerns about the public’s trust in science, old arguments are resurfacing that can sow confusion. As a ...
ScienceAlert on MSN

Large Medical Cannabis Review Finds Scarce Evidence It Treats Mental Health Disorders

(Anastassiya Bezhekeneva/Getty Images) A large umbrella review has found no strong evidence to date that medicinal cannabis ...
Washington Examiner

Absence of Evidence…

Total WonKerr Paul Kerr continues to support the government’s bizarre position that an absence of evidence that the North Korean and Iranian nuclear programs are collaborating is, in fact, evidence of ...