Articles by Fred Phillips

Yucky Science

Crossing Over: How to use and misuse the Fisher-Pry curve

Sustainability: Gladly Pay You Tuesday For A Hamburger Today

Intention

Sex Change and Corn Flakes Stress the Review Board

As the Actress Said to the Bishop, Or, the Professional Practice University

Incremental Cost: More Than An Increment of Trouble

Just-in-Time and its Hazards (Including “Illicit Wealth Transfers”)

Apollo 11: What a difference an A makes

On the Fringe: An Editor’s Dilemma Raises Questions About the Future of Science

Echo Chamber Of Disinformation Keeps Anti-Science Beliefs Persistent

From herbicides to vaccines to pollution, there is a science consensus but there are still pockets of people who refuses to accept them. They are bolstered by disinformation campaigns.

Higgs Decays To Tau Leptons: CMS Sees Them First

I have recently been reproached, by colleagues who are members of the competing ATLAS experiment, of misusing the word "see" in this blog, in the context of searches for physics signals.

There Could Be 6 Billion Planets Like Ours In Just This Galaxy

How big is the universe? No one really knows, but since we are in just one Orion spur of the arm of Sagittarius in one galaxy, and there are an unknown number of galaxies, it's big. So big our galaxy…

Holiday Drinking: What The Saints Believed

Each year the holidays bring with them an increase in both the consumption of alcohol and c

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Echo Chamber Of Disinformation Keeps Anti-Science Beliefs Persistent

Higgs Decays To Tau Leptons: CMS Sees Them First

There Could Be 6 Billion Planets Like Ours In Just This Galaxy

Holiday Drinking: What The Saints Believed