Fifty Million Experts Can Be Wrong
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Some say 2008 will be a bust, but there is good reason to think the year, in total, will be fine.
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Conventional wisdom about wealth through real estate might be wrong.
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It's a battle between the expert and the crowd. Who's going to win?
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In response to a previous article from the Symfony blog, Paul Jones has pulled together some thoughts to some of the comments they made.   As the author of a relatively popular benchmarking article, I feel compelled to respond to this bit of misguided analysis from the Symfony camp about benchmarks.   Paul talks about the "straw-man arguments" presented in the Symfony article, including some references to Paul's previous benchmarks. He's even broken it down into a point-by-point response to make each point clear.
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One of the tongue-in-cheek rules that we column-writers have is, &quot;Often wrong, never in doubt.&quot; Take a stand, don&#39;t duck and weave too much.
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&quot;When someone doesn&#39;t have all the knowledge, they&#39;re speaking almost immaturely about what&#39;s happening. I think these guys were misled and now they&#39;re on the same page.
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Take a crash course in genome research: It may not be what you think it is.
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In the wacky Wiki world that is the Internet, it's hard to know which information is reliable and which isn't.
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Sometimes what we think is true doesn't measure up to the facts. The outdoors is full of conventional wisdom that was passed around the campfire then passed down from one generation to the next. Some of this hand-me-down knowledge is accepted as fact, even when it shouldn't be.
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Patients should beware of so-called stem cell wonder cures as most have not been properly tested, experts say.
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A team of experts draws up five "grand challenges" in order to evaluate the safety of nanotechnology.
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When I suggested in a recent column that a problematic 5 percent of employees account for 75 percent of the IT support burden, I expected a wave of âright on!â letters from IT support staffers. After the column was published, the letters did come â most of them disagreeing with my premise, with one reader suggesting that the real whiner was yours truly. I still think itâs outside the realm of overextended IT departments to provide training on basic computing skills (which I defined as âmanaging and finding files, and basic working knowledge of suites such as MS Officeâ). But my thinking was adjusted a bit by the thoughtful feedback.
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The scientist who pioneered DNA fingerprinting has warned of the increasing danger of false positives as the use of the technique becomes more widespread.
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Many of our political savants and pundits took one in the teeth last night. I couldn't be happier about last night's surprising results, and not because I favor one candidate or another. I'm just glad the so-called experts in the national media were wrong about their premature assumptions that the Democratic and Republican nominations for president were a done deal.
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Sometimes really smart people say really dumb things. Here's a case in point.
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Several prominent experts have criticized a study showing that Riddellâs Revolution football helmet reduced concussions by 31 percent.
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Media watchdog issues unprecedented, stinging rebuke for serious error of judgment.