Winter’s Haven

Dartmouth researchers have discovered that “A dead salmon perceiving humans can tell their emotional state.“.

Well, actually no. Rather, this is an example of the sort of ridiculous result you can obtain if you’re not properly attentive to the possibility of false positives when separating noise from signal in fMRI scans. And it’s a nice example of how progress in epistemic methods is a partly empirical enterprise.

…on a slightly related note, I’m off to ponder the foundationalist / coherentist split now.

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