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Another place where fancy images of the brain allow neuroscientists…

Another place where fancy images of the brain allow neuroscientists to butcher mathematical/statistical rigorhttps://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_31K_MP92hUSTRzbzZnQUVjbm8/edit via Another place where fancy images of the brain… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

More commentary on why neurobiology is a very soft science…

More commentary on why neurobiology is a very soft science (high dimentionality matrix/nonlinear responses). From The Black Swan (2007), less aggressive statement (it looks that mathematics leds me to get more aggressive in debunking): “For an example that justifies skepticism about unconditional reliance on neurobiology, and vindicates the ideas of the empirical school of medicine […]