Bye, Bye, Voodoo

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that a much-anticipated paper with the intriguing title of “Voodoo Correlations in Social Neuroscience,” from a team of researchers at MIT and the University of California, San Diego, will now be published with the moniker "Puzzlingly High Correlations in fMRI Studies of Emotion, Personality, and Social Cognition." Apparently pre-pub criticism and discussion caused the change. The Chronicle provides links. It's all probably par for the course, I suppose, but the first title suggests not only a lot more fun with footnotes, but encourages people to read the article. Rats.