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• User:Jers/blog/2014/10/13/0828/The New Behaviorism (Second Edition)  + (Behaviorism was once the major force in Am … Behaviorism was once the major force in American psychology. It participated in great advances in our understanding of reward and punishment, especially in animals. It drove powerful movements in education and social policy. As a self-identified movement, it is today a vigorous but isolated offshoot. But its main ideas have been absorbed into experimental psychology.een absorbed into experimental psychology.)
• User:Jers/blog/2012/05/06/1539/Welfare and the Mises Dilemma  + (It is usually thought good for someone who … It is usually thought good for someone who has more than enough to help someone who has less. It is not so obvious that it’s good for one person to take from a second to give to a third who may be in need. Yet that is what government welfare entails: forced taking from one group of people to give to another group. Welfare like this may serve a larger social end, but it rests on uncertain moral ground. I believe that it is also likely to fail on practical grounds. Welfare is another example of what I have called elsewhere [https://malignhand.com the malign hand].</br></br>Welfare has two effects:he malign hand]. Welfare has two effects:)
• User:Jers/blog/2022/07/04/Zombie Columnist  + (It’s time to dump NYT columnist Paul Krugm … It’s time to dump NYT columnist Paul Krugman. He writes reasonably well, but he is so predictable, so partisan, so slyly dishonest. </br></br>Everything that Donald Trump did is either wrong, or, if right, right by mistake or from a bad motive. Mr. K also omits relevant facts and makes stuff up — and context? What is that?akes stuff up — and context? What is that?)
• User:Jers/blog/2012/03/21/1415/What we have here is a failure to replicate!  + (There are thousands of published research … There are thousands of published research studies every year purporting to show a curative effect of some new drug. In a ''[[Wall Street Journal|WSJ]]'' article (12/02/11) entitled “Scientists’ Elusive Goal: Reproducing Study Results”, [[Gautam Naik]] lists a slew of such ‘breakthroughs,’ reported in prestigious [[peer-review]]ed scientific journals like ''Nature'', ''Science'' and ''The Lancet'', that cannot be replicated by others, particularly by pharmaceutical companies that would like to profit from them.anies that would like to profit from them.)