This is our second big week focusing on colorectual cancer. Three weeks makes a streak. We'll see. Our paper is Mapping Vitamin D Deficiency, Breast Cancer, and Colorectal Cancer by…

Sometimes I want to write but only tears will come. I (a member of no party) quote from the opening of a recent "scientific" study published by that august organization,…

That don't call it the unhappy meal for nothing. Or, wait... What we have here is yet another instance of scientists claiming to have done something they did not do.…

This is the start of a series of reference articles which explain analytical techniques, with a focus on the philosophy, understanding, common mistakes, and not mathematics. Overview Regression, a.k.a. "linear…

Today's lesson: If the government wants you bad enough, it will get you. If that isn't already obvious, consider what befell W. Scott "Don't Call Me Baron" Harkonen. Just kidding…

Thanks to the many readers who sent me Johnson's paper, which is here (pdf). Those who haven't will want to read "Everything Wrong With P-values Under One Roof", the material…

The scientific life is not as glamorous as its propaganda would have you believe. It isn't all jetting from luxury hotel to tropical island conference to plan the next round…