Here is a new experiment – I’m trying a podcast This is an interview with two of my colleagues at The Unjournal, David Reinstein and David Jintcharadze. The Unjournal is a US non-profit exploring alternatives to traditional academic peer review and journal publication. In this podcast, we range over the problems with traditional peer review, ways t…

The challenges Is it OK to smack, spank or physically punish your children? Billions of parents care deeply about this question. But answering it is very difficult, because it comes with horrible methodological problems. Obviously, there is a huge problem of reverse causality. Suppose children who are regularly spanked are naughtier. Did the punish…