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4 Dec 2008, 2:40 pm
Charles Seife writes in today's NYTimes: Minnesota’s instruments for counting votes are simply too crude to determine the winner in a race this tight. . . . [read post]
23 Nov 2011, 6:55 am by Rees Morrison
In Charles Seife, Proofiness: How you’re being fooled by the numbers (Penguin 2010) at 108, a point is made that has bearing on the survey instruments in the header and their findings. [read post]
4 Dec 2008, 12:05 pm
The NY Times has this op-ed from Charles Seife on errors in Minnesota's election and recount. [read post]
5 Aug 2021, 8:43 am by Allan Blutstein
HHS and Sarepta argue the information sought by the plaintiff, journalism professor Charles Seife, is confidential commercial information that FDA is not allowed to release under the Freedom of Information Act.* * * The appeals court case is Seife v. [read post]
27 Sep 2016, 5:32 am by Walter Olson
Charles Seife in Scientific American tells the story of how, using the “close-hold embargo” and other techniques, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other government agencies shape what you read about them when major initiatives and findings are announced. [read post]
7 Mar 2011, 6:31 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
GUTTENPLAN rambles from the plagiarism of Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg to that of Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi to that of Joe Biden, and then talks about patents and copyrights in the U.S.: Although Article 8 of the U.S. [read post]
2 Aug 2018, 2:37 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Tied for tenth place was science writer and New York University journalism professor, Charles Seife, and Politico reporter, Josh Gerstein. [read post]
17 Jan 2015, 5:20 am by SHG
Charles Seife, a journalist and a professor at New York University, coined the term proofiness as a corollary to an earlier term coined by comedian Stephen Colbert: truthiness. [read post]
26 Sep 2010, 4:01 pm by Sandy Levinson
Charles Seife has just published a book called Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception, of which this is a perfect example. [read post]
11 Mar 2018, 6:42 am by Dave Maass
Recognizing the Year’s Worst in Government Transparency Government transparency laws like the Freedom of Information Act exist to enforce the public’s right to inspect records so we can all figure out what the heck is being done in our name and with our tax dollars. [read post]