Category: Brain Yapping

Back when I blogged for the Guardian Science Network, a worrying amount of my output was me debunking or critiquing the dubious, unscientific claims made in other Guardian articles. So here I go again.

‘Thoughts and Prayers’ cover social media after almost any event these days. But iss it as innocent as it seems in most cases? the latest from Dr Dean Burnett.

A recent study claims that brain scans reveal social exclusion makes someone more likely to become a Jihadist. This is a very bizarre claim, way beyond the limits of the technology says Dean Burnett.

So many scientists are paid to suppress the truth, but how do you get on that lucrative gravy train? Dr Dean Burnett has some tips to make it big by peddling BS.

A recent large population study claims to conclusively prove that male and female brains are different. Of course, it does no such thing. As such, Dr Dean Burnett is quite annoyed.

Tissue of lies: were Kleenex right to drop the ‘Mansize’ label? Do men actually need their own dedicated tissues? Dr Dean Burnett sees what the science says in this pressing issue.

If prominent scientists are supposed to be superior intellects, why do they so often start spouting utter bilge, sometimes in self-destructive ways? Dr Dean Burnett investigates.

The human memory can be unreliable so does this mean that we should be discounting Professor Ford’s recall of the events from her youth? No. For several reasons, we too believe her. The latest from Dr Dean Burnett.

A recent reddit post argued that brains that aren’t fully formed can’t know what love really is. This is, according to all evidence, nonsense.

Yet again, people in the mainstream media are chastising the use of smartphones in public. But it’s fine to ignore them, you’re doing nothing wrong.

In the first post of his new Brain Yapping blog, neuroscientist Dr Dean Burnett takes a look at how emojis might just save the world.