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Reflections on the peer supervision process

About five months ago the head psychiatrist at the clinic where I work approached me about starting a peer supervision group for the Interns and Externs training there. He wanted to construct a space where they could present and discuss their cases, receive feedback from their peers and also raise any issues that they were [...]

Greek, Roman, American Affectation in Woody Allen’s Interiors (1978)

Who knew that between his early run of physical comedies — What’s Up, Tiger Lily? (1966), Take the Money and Run (1969), Bananas (1971),  Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972), Sleeper (1973) — and his long run of New York dramatic comedies — beginning with Annie [...]

Vul, fMRI, and … Intelligent Design?

Vul, fMRI, and … Intelligent Design?

Responses to Vul et al.’s  article on fMRI abuse, which proved as much of a “bombshell” as first predicted, are now too numerous to list. Needless to say, several of the authors of studies Vul criticized quickly responded with a defense [pdf] of their work, to which Vul in turn replied with a rebuttal of [...]

Vul on fMRI abuse in the cognitive neuroscience of social interaction

Vul on fMRI abuse in the cognitive neuroscience of social interaction

Vaughan Bell of Mind Hacks links to a forthcoming Perspectives on Psychological Science article by Edward Vul et al. that is sure to prove a “bombshell” for the field of cognitive neuroscience.  Vul’s analysis demonstrates, in rigorous detail, how the too-good-to-be-true results of (mostly) headline studies are produced by complex statistical errors and biases. Vul’s [...]

Cesarotti, Ossian, and the Folk Compilation

Review: Cesarotti, Melchiore. “Historical and Critical Dissertation, Respecting the Controversy on the Authenticity of Ossian’s Poems.” Translated by John M’Arthur. In The Poems of Ossian. Vol. 3, 293–331. New York: AMS Press Inc, 1975. Originally published in Robert MacFarlan, trans., The Poems of Ossian (London: W. Bulmer and Co., 1807). “Blackwell uses a special term [...]

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