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“No respectable university should provide a course that preaches the mumbo-jumbo of meridians, energy flows and Qi (the principles on which acupuncture is based) as though they were science,” [University College London pharmacology professor David Colquhoun] argues.”
Link: Prof. W. Keith Campbell Will Not Rate The Sexiness Of Your Facebook Profile Picture For You
Scientific American’s Ivan Oransky, intrigued by a narcissism study in PSPB that used ratings of Facebook about-me arrogance and profile-picture vanity, asked the study’s authors to rate his Facebook profile. The authors, alas, refused.
Link: The World’s Cheapest Participant Pool
Del.ici.ous founder Joshua Schachter, a self-described “amateur economist”, uses Amazon’s Mechanical Turk as an experimental pool. Where else could you get n=2100 for $30 in three hours?
I suppose that when you have $40 million or thereabouts from Yahoo’s acquisition of your startup, you don’t need to worry about pesky things like informed-consent letters. Sigh.
Link: Nearly Half of Canadians Want More King-Byng Affairs
The Globe and Mail’s online poll, always good for a facepalm, is particularly priceless today. It asks readers whether they feel the Governor General should disregard constitutional convention and refuse Harper the chance to call an election.
Some 46% of respondents feel she should “deny” his request for an election, or “tell Harper to face Parliament again first”. In other words, nearly half of Canadians want the unelected mouthpiece of our cerimonial figurehead monarch to be actively interfering with our politics.
My friend Carol-Ann sagely observed that if you asked the same people the question, “does the G-G have too much power,” they’d probably all answer yes.
Steven Reisner, an assistant clinical professor at the New York University School of Medicine and a candidate for the presidency of the APA.
Lukas Neville 
