Misconceptions about science

Although it doesn’t bear directly on the questions of logic and psychology that interest me, I was interested to see this lecture about where science education goes wrong, for its examples of how preconceptions reinforce themselves by shaping how we interpret evidence. I also liked the quote from Cardinal Wolsey:
“Be very, very careful what you [...]

Wikipedia attacked for being too (and insufficiently) elitist

Students or researchers treat WikiPedia as a reliable source at their peril. I’d gladly applaud an opinion column taking these people to task, and I thought that philosopher Martin Cohen’s article in Times Higher Education would be it. Instead, he does a curious logical reversal: he takes some wholesale arguments used by anti-intellectuals against academia [...]