Video Link The Epidemiologist Fallacy marries the Ecological Fallacy with the P-value Fallacy. The Ecological Fallacy is when it is said X causes Y, but X is not measured, and instead a […]
I love air pollution. Smells like progress. Good for you. Nothing healthier. Except smoking. There, now that that’s out of the way, let’s get to the paper “Air pollution-induced missed abortion risk […]
Long-time readers will recall the epidemiologist fallacy is a shotgun marriage of the ecological fallacy and wee p-values. Make that and/or confidence intervals. For confidence intervals are equivalent to p-values in use […]
Time for the semi-annual call to contribute! Do this The best way to ensure the continued existence of this backwater block is to pass on articles that you like, or even loathe, […]
Dust is thrilling researchers these days. Dust, or the more scientific sounding PM2.5, is the next greatest struggle after global warming. We’ve already seen attempts to prove dust, as measured by the […]
Hypothesis testing leads to more scientific nonsense than any other practice, including fraud. Hypothesis testing, as regular readers know, cannot identify cause. It conflates decision with probability and leads to vast, vast […]
To prove that we are indeed doomed, and that we haven’t even come close to hitting the bottom of the bottomless Pit Of Progress, this Newsweek headline: TANNING SALONS COULD BE TARGETING […]
Some comments on the JAMA: Internal Medicine article “An International Perspective on Drugs for Cancer: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times” by Richard Lehman. Drugs increase fast, and there is […]
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