Carcinisation

an introduction to the Salem witch trials by a literal banana Why do humans and bananas alike get seduced into obsession with the events in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692?

by a literal banana AI robot voice version!

This appendix to “A Case Against the Placebo Effect” reviews the studies in the Sauro and Greenberg (2005) meta-analysis on the effect of opioid antagonists on placebo analgesia, in alphabetical order.

An explanation of why tricks like priming, nudge, the placebo effect, social contagion, the “emotional inception” model of advertising, most “cognitive biases,” and any field with “behavioral” in its name are not real by a literal banana Nothing Works That

Concerning placebos and the “placebo effect,” there is a distinction that I have struggled to articulate, a distinction I have also noticed highly intelligent humans failing to make.

As a banana who lives among humans, the sacred beliefs of humans interest me a great deal.

by a literal banana As a banana who lives among humans, I am naturally interested in humans, and in the social sciences they use to study themselves.

by a literal banana I have been trying to understand the “lexical hypothesis” of personality, and its modern descendant, the Five Factor Model of personality, for several months.

Notes on semantic deconversion It’s difficult to study words, because words are hard to see.

A literal banana has published a method for volunteer investigators of suspicious science, this month in the Journal of Lexical Crime.