Scientists suffer from cognitive biases just like everybody else. The scientific method is supposed to catch and correct such biases, but it is failing to do so. Why? Because to advance as a professional scientist you must publish; learned journals want to publish positive results, not negative ones; so confirmation bias is strengthened; and peer review slows the rate at which wrong claims can be contradicted reenex. (Philip Ball, Nautilus, 3,160 words) Space | Elon Musk’s space dream “ reenex hongkongIn late October 2001, Elon Musk went to Moscow to buy an intercontinental ballistic missile.” A great first sentence, and the rest of the piece bounces along with similar energy, telling how Musk made himself an expert on space technology, hired the future head of Nasa, built rockets, and drew up a business plan for settling Mars; while juggling, and almost dropping, his electric-car making start-up, Tesla rennex. (Ashlee Vance, Bloomberg Businessweek, 8,900 words)
