Food for Thought

Non-statistical components of research rigor in biology (2025)
Preprint of article forthcoming in the Minnesota Studies in Philosophy of Science

If Biology has been using Statistics wrong, how did it get so much right? (2021)
A brief comment about the p value pretense, in the context of the reproducibility crisis and science reform.

What is the function of the brain? (1996) A very brief statement written with care at the beginning of my
career as a Theoretical Neuroscientist, which has guided my subsequent work.

Chaos in the brickyard (1963) Bernard K. Forscher.
A cautionary parable about atheoretical culture in Biology.

Possible principles underlying the transformations of sensory messages (1961), Horace Barlow
"A wing would be a most mystifying structure if one did not know that birds flew."

A quote from Helmholtz about the experience of pursuing science

Miscellaneous short quotes