I think there's a lot of pent-up demand for things like "how to read a popular article reporting on a science fact", "how to read a scientific paper in a field you don't know", etc.
I'd like to see that. Or, rather than a how-to synthesis, how about some relatively raw data? A series of postings linking to scientific articles which got some initial positive play in the popular press, but later were convincingly critiques/debunked in the blogosphere.
Good science is all alike. Each example of bad science may be bad in its own individual way. (HT to LT).
A major psychology journal is planning to publish a study that claims to present strong evidence for precognition. Naturally, this immediately stirred up a firestorm. There are a lot of scientific-process and philosophy-of-science issues involved, including replicability, peer review, Bayesian statistics, and degrees of scrutiny. The Flying Spaghetti Monster makes a guest appearance.
Original New York Times article on the study here.
And the Times asked a number of academics (including Douglas Hofstadter) to comment on the controversy. The discussion is here.
I, for one, defy the data.