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  • junk in the junk science Why the recent rash of anti-trans laws are based on junk science Thom Dunn
  • 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
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  • snooper's ball with chinese characteristics Report from a massive Chinese surveillance tech expo, where junk-science "emotion recognition" rules Cory Doctorow
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  • 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
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  • 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
  • kate manne Thoughtful, devastating critique of Jordan Peterson's "12 Rules for Life" Cory Doctorow
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  • power poses It's back! British Conservative politicians' habitual "go ahead, kick me in the balls, I can take it" pose Cory Doctorow
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  • 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
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