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The New York Times readers generate hundreds of (smart) comments about Daryl Bem’s precognition paper.

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Chris F. Masse

Wow, the psi research field (led by Dean Radin et al.) is as hot as the Sun in Summer. When Science Goes Psychic @ The New York Times.

Posted in Precognition, Psychology, Research, Science | Tagged Daryl Bem, extrasensory perception, future, New York Times, physicists, physics, physics research, Precognition, psi, psychic, psychologists, Psychology, psychology research, Research, researchers, retrocausality, retrocausation, Science, time, time physics | Leave a comment

The Climate Gate scandal highlights the modus operandi of the academic mafia.

Posted on December 18, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Required reading this Friday: – How to Manufacture a Climate Consensus – About expelling the non-believers from the academic journals publishing on climate science – The Dog Ate Global Warming – About the destruction of raw temperature data of Planet … Continue reading →

Posted in Ethics, Research, Science | Tagged academia, academic mafia, climate change, Climate Gate, climate science, ClimateGate, Earth, Earth science, global warming, Planet Earth, professors, Research, researchers, Science | Leave a comment

Unlike every other academic field, computer science uses conferences rather than journals as the main publication venue.

Posted on August 4, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Lance Fortnow: While this made sense for a young discipline, our field has matured and the conference model has fractured the discipline and skewered it toward short-term, deadline-driven research. Computer science should refocus the conference system on its primary purpose … Continue reading →

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Scholarly journals are not so open.

Posted on July 1, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Academic Papers + Open Access + Scholarly Journals = a crazzzzzy mix

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Robin Hanson: My best idea was prediction markets.

Posted on June 29, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Robin Hanson‘s auto-biography (i.e., how Our Master Of All Universes views HimSelf): – Robin Hanson: Do you find it hard to summarize yourself in a few words? Me too. But I love the above quote. I have a passion, a … Continue reading →

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Do economics professors who have business relationships with prediction market companies indoctrinate their students about the supposed benefits of prediction markets?

Posted on March 3, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Read this New York Times article about academic–industry ties. How much consulting and speaking fees (plus, free meals, tickets, trips or the like) do our economics professors receive from the prediction market industry? Does it taint what they write and … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Ethics, Inventions & Innovations | Tagged academia, academics, acholars, prediction market companies, prediction market industry, professors, research scientists, researchers | Leave a comment

PREDICTION MARKET STARTUP GRABS REKNOWNED RESEARCHER AWAY FROM HP LABS. — TIPPING POINT FOR THE PREDICTION MARKET INDUSTRY?

Posted on August 21, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Posted in Consulting, People | Tagged corporate prediction markets, enterprise prediction markets, event derivative markets, event derivatives, HP, HP Labs, internal prediction markets, Leslie Fine, market designs, prediction market designs, prediction market researchers, Prediction Market Software, prediction markets, private prediction markets, researchers, Xpree | Leave a comment

Meet professor Thomas W. Malone (on the right), from the MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence.

Posted on July 5, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Photo Credit: Neely Steinberg – Tom Malone MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence – PS: The guy on the computer is Jason Carver. -

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The best researchers on prediction markets

Posted on June 4, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

CFM: Scholars Check that CFM page for updates. And contact me so I can make additions to the list. (I’ll then re-publish that updated list on Midas Oracle.) – Michael Abramowicz – Michael B. Abramowicz – (Law School, George Washington … Continue reading →

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