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From cases to principles: reflections on ethics in forensic peer review

Notes on error detection, the relationship between sleuthing and metascience, and how values guide forensic peer review.

16 October 2026
14 min
Essay
2,735 words

Today I hate effect heterogeneity worse than everything

After chasing individual causal effects through assumptions all the way down, I am done with this damned topic.

4 October 2026
7 min
Essay
1,240 words

Coworking with an Auto Memory Doll

On learning to work alongside AI agents, grappling with retaining ownership of my work, and the unexpected freedom of letting go.

30 August 2026
20 min
Essay
3,870 words

How trained are ‘trained’ participants?

Why years of reported training experience may conceal relatively little effective training exposure.

21 August 2026
10 min
Essay
1,951 words

Choosing what there is

Ontological choices, values, and scientific realism without metaphysical certainty

18 August 2026
6 min
Note
1,026 words

Borges and Popper

A shared commonsense argument for realism

17 August 2026
5 min
Note
820 words

Science is a Tower

Janitorial science and the brickmakers.

12 August 2026
5 min
Note
830 words
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