Some humans might prefer to read the entirety of this study, rather than see any summary that we or anyone else would provide: “Monkeys Prefer Reality Television,” Eliza Bliss-Moreau [pictured below], Anthony C. Santistevan, and Christopher J. Machad, PsyAxXiv, DOI 10.31234/osf.io/7drpt, 2021. The authors are at the University of California Davis; Flatiron Health, Inc., New […]
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“Will a vegetarian diet during pregnancy drive your child to drugs and drink”
This news article explores whether a particular science study corresponds to reality. The news article is “Will a vegetarian diet during pregnancy drive your child to drugs and drink?“, by Sharon Begley, published in Stat. The science study itself is “Meat Consumption During Pregnancy and Substance Misuse Among Adolescent Offspring: Stratification of TCN2 Genetic Variants,” published in […]
Improbable Research: Reality is declared to be the best parody
Most of what’s here on the Improbable Research site is real — we supply citations and links so you can see for yourself. Now our reality-based site has been honored as one of the “Top 25 Parody Blogs on the Planet.” This is perhaps symbolic of the times, in which the new President of the United […]
The man who wants you to realize that reality is unrealistic
A professor cooks up some computer simulations, which convince him to try to convince everyone that reality is unrealistic. Amanda Gefter interviewed the professor, for The Atlantic magazine: “The Case Against Reality“. NEXT POST: Type A personality from a chair?
