Adding sugar to corn, doesn't make it magically delicious. Adding numbers to qualitative statements doesn't make them magically objective.

I was in a fraternity as an undergraduate. Those boys could never have imagined such a sophistic hazing ritual as the doctoral qualifying exam.

If scientists were simply required to list all of their unprovable assumptions at the beginning of each journal article, the field [of psychology] would either…

Temperature and poetry are different -- the scientist may tell Shakespeare what temperature is and how to measure it. If he tries to tell Shakespeare what poet…