Scientific fraud, Soviet cosmonauts, fixed effects, comics: Links I liked

Why Andre Gelman doesn’t use the terms “fixed” and “random”. If he doesn’t, we shouldn’t. Probably

Why I don’t use the terms “fixed” and “random” (again) | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

t.co

PhD Comics: Overtime

PHD Comics: Overtime

Link to Piled Higher and Deeper

t.co

Academic fraud in Political Science

Washington Post

Posters from the Soviet Space Age.

Posters of the golden age of Soviet cosmonauts

Seven poster stories from 50 years ago - when the Soviet Union fought the Space Race.

BBC News

And finally, Fascinating longread on the LaCour affair

The Case of the Amazing Gay-Marriage Data: How a Graduate Student Reluctantly Uncovered a Huge Scientific Fraud

“What’s the book? There’s no book for this. What do we do?’”

The Cut

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