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5-4-2021. So many interesting questions and feedback received at my recent Phil Stat Forum, where I argued that a an information metric could bring truce to the statistics wars. The video recording

K theory

5-3-2021. Deeply honoured to be pitted against Jon Krosnick in a "pro/con" opinion article in Congressional Quarterly, on whether science is facing a credibility crisis. I took the "No" position, of course. The whole feature on whether Expertise is Under Assault covers a lot of interesting ground.
3-3-2021. Quillette discussed my covidConsensus.org project in a feature article suggesting that Lockdown Scepticism Was Never a ‘Fringe’ Viewpoint . I believe the author to be right!
28-1-2021. Was the OUMUAUA asteroid was an alien artefact? I don't know, but I sure want good evidence before believing it, I told The Debrief.
17-12-2020. Over 450 have visited covidConsensus.org and nearly 100 have voted! Some really interesting patterns emerged in the opinions, which I summarized in a Blog post.
6-12-2020. It's out! A pilot project to develop new ways to help scientists debate controversial ideas in public. I asked a sample of published authors to express their opinion on the Focussed Protection stratgegy against Covid-19: www.covidconsensus.org. Initial results suggest that opinions are widespread, and it appears that females are less favourable than males, and Western countries less than Eastern ones. Response rates are rather low, however, and any suggestions to improve them will be greatly appreciated.
22-11-2020. Wow, time flies, when you are locked at home! I kept myself rather busy on numerous fronts. Aside from a couple of interesting empirical studies currently under review, I am exploring ways to apply K theory directly to help improve research practices. This is mainly why I decided to withdraw the preprint on applying K to reproducibility - whilst I work on more generalizable methodologies. But, most exciting of all at present, I have been working a secret new project that aims to help science and society talk better. Stay tuned as this will be unveiling soon!
31-03-2020. About one year after the publication of K theory, a new preprint presents Metascientific reproducibility patterns revealed by measuring K. This is part 1 of results I partially showed at a few recent conferences, including the REWARD | EQUATOR Conference 2020, which has released the video of my talk.