Test for Espionage and Sabotage Antipolygraph.org publishes secret guidelines for the federal "Test for Espionage and Sabotage," a psuedoscientific feature of government life Cory Doctorow
Avinoam Sapir Cops and spooks all over the world rely on a junk-science "walking polygraph" method to steer their investigation Cory Doctorow
iq tests German researchers with ties to for-profit "neuromarketing" company want to use AI to guess peoples' "intelligence" from their writing Cory Doctorow
snooper's ball with chinese characteristics Report from a massive Chinese surveillance tech expo, where junk-science "emotion recognition" rules Cory Doctorow
hirevue When the HR department is a robotic phrenologist: "face-scanning algorithm" gains popularity as a job-applicant screener Cory Doctorow
ernst and young Ernst and Young subjected women employees to "training" about keeping the company's men happy Cory Doctorow
behavioral detection Eminent psychologists condemn "emotion detection" systems as being grounded in junk science Cory Doctorow
junk science Profile of Peter Thiel's "junk science" journal from someone asked to write for it Rob Beschizza
genetic privacy If you're an American of European descent, your stupid cousins have probably put you in vast commercial genomic databases Cory Doctorow
bestiality accusations The Big Lie: how polygraph companies convinced the US government to use pseudoscience on job applicants Cory Doctorow
intellectual dark web Thoughtful, devastating critique of Jordan Peterson's "12 Rules for Life" Cory Doctorow
Fel rhech mewn pot jam Welsh police deployed facial recognition tech with a 92% false positive rate, but they're sure it's fine Cory Doctorow
power poses It's back! British Conservative politicians' habitual "go ahead, kick me in the balls, I can take it" pose Cory Doctorow
neurobollocks Neurobollocks with Chinese characteristics: Chinese employers use "brain wave sensors" to tune workforces Cory Doctorow
weaponized sorting hats UK police train machine-learning model using Experian data that stereotypes people based on garden size, first names, and postal codes Cory Doctorow
psychographics Just because Cambridge Analytica tells its customers it can sway elections, it doesn't follow that they're any good at it Cory Doctorow
big sugar For more than half a century, the sugar industry has used Big Tobacco tactics to suppress sugar/cancer link and to confuse the science Cory Doctorow
peer review Predatory "scientific journals" tricked into publishing Star Wars-themed hoax Cory Doctorow
amateur ear piercing The Army is using quack "battlefield acupuncture" based on junk science Cory Doctorow
