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1. Survey Statistics: exploded logit ! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
2. Two Health Economists Walk into a Bar: What bothered me in that conversation of Jay Bhattacharya and Emily Oster (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
3. Immune Booster 27: Interferons, JAKs, and STATs with George Stark (www.microbe.tv)
4. Is It the Shoes? (www.theatlantic.com)
5. MAHA’s Perfect Villain (www.theatlantic.com)
6. Hey! Try out the RMET (“the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test”). (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
7. Should French pollsters be using Mister P? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
8. Why isn’t it possible to play a fun and serious game of poker not for money? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
9. TWiV 1317: Dead shrimp walking (www.microbe.tv)
10. He’s a music educator evaluating K–12 music education systems, and he wants someone to look at his measurements and statistics. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
11. Blogging and writing style (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
12. TWiV 1316: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
13. Update on that un-published CDC report on covid vaccines (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
14. Three things I forgot to say today at the National Academy of Sciences Workshop on Enhancing Scientific Integrity (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
15. Trump 1 vs. Trump 2: The role of the two other branches of government (legislative and judicial) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
16. Probability theory corner: My favorite birthday-problem story (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
17. If that CDC report had just included some fake citations and some crazy dietary advice, the boss would surely have approved it for publication. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
18. MAHA Swing Voters Are an Illusion (www.theatlantic.com)
19. Fraud and the false optimism of AI for science (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
20. Postmodern anti-science attitudes? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
21. A ‘Barbaric’ Problem in American Hospitals Is Only Getting Bigger (www.theatlantic.com)
22. Survey Statistics: dCV for MRP ? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
23. A Life Hack for the Ultra-Wealthy Is Going Mainstream (www.theatlantic.com)
24. Did Taylor Swift kill a bunch of people? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
25. Immune 103: Cytokines 101 (www.microbe.tv)
26. “I have seen the future of science. It is ruled by bitter competition instead of collaboration, pageantry instead of exploration. Bright minds beginning careers in science will be taught to debase their training for drudgerous pursuit of meaningless metrics. Those willing to toil over genuine questions will necessarily lose out to those that can furnish cheap answers. . . .” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
27. Eugene Wigner and the Moonies (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
28. TWiV 1315: Jabs for bats (www.microbe.tv)
29. “Making Your Research Free May Cost You” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
30. TWiV 1314: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
31. In ML, everyone’s Humpty Dumpty (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
32. Fascinating 1981 interview with Morris Kline, author of the classic book, Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
33. RFK Jr.’s New Normal (www.theatlantic.com)
34. The DNA Fix for Aging (www.theatlantic.com)
35. The Bayesian Workflow book is coming! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
36. Can you hit a home run off of Paul Skenes? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
37. Survey Statistics: irrelevant alternatives ? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
38. Epistemic Virtues for Science in the Age of Automation (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
39. How to report a N=12 study? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
40. Which beliefs are considered acceptable and which are not? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
41. All graphs are comparisons, and the relevance of this principle to practical advice for producing better graphs (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
42. TWiV 1313: Maybe they're all dementia vaccines (www.microbe.tv)
43. “The FTC does not have our backs, that much is clear” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
44. Here’s a story from Australia: There were so many problems with the survey that the government didn’t release the data. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
45. America Has a New GLP-1 Playbook (www.theatlantic.com)
46. TWiV 1312: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
47. The internet of poop (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
48. A Cancer Treatment That Does More Than Scientists Thought (www.theatlantic.com)
49. An application for training deep learning models in your browser (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
50. Updike in Tehran (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
51. Survey Statistics: improving with structure (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
52. My talk at Stanford later this month: “What to do when your estimate is 1 standard error away from 0?” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
53. How the Whole-Grain Trend Went Wrong (www.theatlantic.com)
54. Immune Booster 26: Immune defense against parasitic worms with Irah King (www.microbe.tv)
55. The ChatGPT Symptom Spiral (www.theatlantic.com)
56. My (uninformed and completely speculative) theory about Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
57. TWiV 1311: Jayhawks go viral (www.microbe.tv)
58. How do political organizations and politically-minded rich people translate money into media influence? Differently than they used to. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
59. The Man Holding MAHA Together (www.theatlantic.com)
60. Campus newspapers and what remains of journalism (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
61. TWiV 1310: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
62. I love the library–you never know what you’re gonna find there. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
63. Is your model converging? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
64. Shameless plug alert: Win prizes by forecasting real healthcare data to help UK’s health service save lives (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
65. Hey! Here’s a great money making opportunity using the lottery. And it’s endorsed by Google, Apple, Yahoo, Morningstar, and Microsoft! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
66. HHS Officials’ Year in Purgatory Is Ending (www.theatlantic.com)
67. Survey Statistics: design-based cross validation (dCV) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
68. Black and white, gray and in between: What color is the media? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
69. The Family That Decided to Have Their Stomachs Removed (www.theatlantic.com)
70. The point of yesterday’s post on the three ways of attacking a statistical problem (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
71. The Making of a Diagnostic Mind (www.theatlantic.com)
72. Looking for a postdoc to teach and develop Bayesian methods (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
73. Immune102: Living longer without B cells (www.microbe.tv)
74. MAHA Has Been Given an Impossible Task (www.theatlantic.com)
75. These are the three ways of attacking a statistical problem (illustrated with the NFL example) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
76. Don’t Get Sucked Into the War on Lice (www.theatlantic.com)
77. “12-dimensional chess” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
78. Pacific island energy supply (freerangestats.info)
79. TWiV 1309: Maybe they're all cancer vaccines (www.microbe.tv)
80. 2026 American Causal Inference Conference (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
81. Should you include a list of retractions, corrections, and errors, along with a list of publications, on your CV? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
82. America’s Raw-Cheddar Chaos (www.theatlantic.com)
83. TWiV 1308: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
84. RFK Jr. Is Losing His Grip on the CDC (www.theatlantic.com)
85. The Meme-Washing of RFK Jr. (www.theatlantic.com)
86. TWiV 1307: My heart breaks for flu (www.microbe.tv)
87. Pacific island demograpy, the narrative (freerangestats.info)
88. TWiV 1306: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
89. There’s Only One Reason to Cold Plunge (www.theatlantic.com)
90. A New Level of Vaccine Purgatory (www.theatlantic.com)
91. Girls’ Sports Are Getting More Physical (www.theatlantic.com)
92. Immune Booster 25: Out of the anti-vax woods with Ellen Woods (www.microbe.tv)
93. The Peptide Boom Is Getting Out of Hand (www.theatlantic.com)
94. What 100 Million Volts Do to the Body and Mind (www.theatlantic.com)
95. TWiV 1305: Lab leak idea called on the carpet (www.microbe.tv)
96. TWiV 1304: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
97. TWiV 1303: Overachieving vaccines (www.microbe.tv)
98. Pacific island remittances (freerangestats.info)
99. TWiV 1302: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
100. Immune Booster 24: Tolerating pregnancy with Gabrielle Rizzuto (www.microbe.tv)
101. Pacific island population pyramids (again) (freerangestats.info)