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1. Do Childhood Vaccines Cause Tornadoes? (www.theatlantic.com)
2. Pour One Out for Weed Seltzer (www.theatlantic.com)
3. “What do you think is the ideal number of children for a family to have?” Two different statistical measurement challenges arise from this one question on the General Social Survey. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
4. The CDC’s Website Is Anti-Vaccine Now (www.theatlantic.com)
5. Three meta-principles of statistics: the information principle, the methodological attribution problem, and different applications demand different philosophies (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
6. StatRetro: The twitter feed that spits out our old blog posts, one at a time, every 8 hours (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
7. RFK Jr.’s Miasma Theory of Health Is Spreading (www.theatlantic.com)
8. Whoa-zempic! (www.theatlantic.com)
9. This guy’s mad about fake research, and he should be. Research incompetence, research fraud, and the promotion of fraudulent or incompetent work . . . these are not victimless crimes. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
10. Survey Statistics: sampling the sample (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
11. Under what sort of systematic reporting errors will science be self-correcting, or not? And do gardening programs reduce obesity? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
12. America Has a Baby-Formula Problem—Again (www.theatlantic.com)
13. The Aristocrats! (Found poetry in the email archive) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
14. A Borgesian blog idea (and nothing to do with forking paths) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
15. Sociology of science: What does it take for erroneous or fraudulent claims to take hold? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
16. TWiV 1271: Hokies go viral II (www.microbe.tv)
17. The density of fraud (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
18. RFK Jr.’s Cheer Squad Is Getting Restless (www.theatlantic.com)
19. TWiV 1270: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
20. The fifth anniversary of a viral histogram (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
21. How is it that this problem, with its 21 data points, is so much easier to handle with 1 predictor than with 16 predictors? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
22. The Democrats were lucky that the election was last week and not next week. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
23. The value of close reading: Larry Summers edition (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
24. Noted economist likes to talk about demographics but he doesn’t know the actual facts. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
25. America’s Best Pasta Is Slipping Away (www.theatlantic.com)
26. “Belief in the law of small numbers” as a way to understand the continuing appeal of junk science (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
27. Who Would Want to Kill 314 Ostriches? (www.theatlantic.com)
28. Survey Statistics: weights and MRP for voters (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
29. The Patches That Want to Fix Your Sleep, Sex, and Focus (www.theatlantic.com)
30. From the three branches of government to the bidirectional nature of legal reasoning in a way that is similar to how statistics works, and should work, in the real world (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
31. Immune Booster 19: Virus-immune Tug-of-war with Kristian Andersen (www.microbe.tv)
32. The acupuncture paradox and its resolution (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
33. What intro stats textbook to use? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
34. TWiV 1269: The smell of influenza in the morning (www.microbe.tv)
35. “Science and Religious Dogmatism” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
36. Distribution of p-values under the null hypothesis for discrete data (freerangestats.info)
37. TWiV 1268: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
38. MSc and PhD programs in statistics at the University of British Columbia (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
39. Conflicting statistical evidence on the long-term effects of children on being whacked by their parents (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
40. The Epidemiologists Are Running for Office (www.theatlantic.com)
41. Trump’s Ozempic Deal Has a Major Flaw (www.theatlantic.com)
42. The model underlying R-hat and a Bayesian estimator (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
43. If Cuomo had been able to run against Mamdani head-to-head, would he have won? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
44. Politics and poker: The theoretical appeal of the Cuomo non-party campaign for mayor (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
45. Discrepancies between polls and election outcomes in 2025 (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
46. Americans on Food Stamps Have No Good Options (www.theatlantic.com)
47. Predictive Modelling for Football Analytics is available! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
48. Survey Statistics: continued struggles with equivalent weights (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
49. Polls & Betting odds & Nonsampling errors & Win probabilities & Vote margins (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
50. The Inflammation Gap (www.theatlantic.com)
51. The Office of Risk Assessment at the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Authority is looking for an applied statistician with expertise in Bayesian statistics or causal inference (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
52. Donald Trump and Joe McCarthy (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
53. An economist reports that the cost data from Medicare are “completely irrelevant. It is clearly measures of net costs that matter, but only gross costs (analogous to sticker prices) are provided. Similar issues arise with recent requirements for hospital price transparency.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
54. In Defense of ‘Groupthink’ (www.theatlantic.com)
55. TWiV 1267: A cancer vaccine and an mpox treatment (www.microbe.tv)
56. Hilarious Ted Talk bio: “he sold the second most expensive picture at his first exhibition — without really being able to paint.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
57. TWiV 1266: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
58. America’s Grocery Lifeline Is Fraying (www.theatlantic.com)
59. Studying sex ratios is just a lot harder than you think: effects are tiny and variation is large. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
60. The last time it seemed that the country was coming apart (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
61. The WAR war and the electoral benefits of running more moderate candidates for political office (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
62. No, this is not “the most unpredictable race for mayor that New York City has seen in decades” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
63. The Obesity-Drug Revolution Is Stalling (www.theatlantic.com)
64. Survey Statistics: Blue Rose Research is hiring ! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
65. The stated purpose of a program is not always the same as its real purpose (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
66. Immune 97: Bystander B cells go bananas (www.microbe.tv)
67. Trump Needs the UN in Gaza (www.theatlantic.com)
68. Reading like it’s 1937 (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
69. Hey Philip Larkin, I don’t get what you were saying here! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
70. TWiV 1265: mRNA vaccines make cancer treatment great again (www.microbe.tv)
71. The Pitfalls of Sleepmaxxing (www.theatlantic.com)
72. Even the easiest data requests can require some effort (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
73. TWiV 1264: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
74. Assistant professor position at USI in Lugano (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
75. David Owen writes about hearing aids (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
76. Was Admiral Poindexter a terrorist? (Who’s in charge of your prediction market?) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
77. Sabbatical and pre-faculty positions at Flatiron Institute in NYC (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
78. Here’s a statistics research project for you: Is the skewness of the distribution of the empirical correlation coefficient asymptotically proportional to the correlation? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
79. Survey Statistics: individualism doesn’t work (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
80. No Appointments, No Nurses, No Private Insurance Needed (www.theatlantic.com)
81. Reanalysis of that Nobel prizewinning study of patents and innovation (with R and Stan code) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
82. TWiV 1263: Dementia vaccine? (www.microbe.tv)
83. TWiV 1262: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
84. The Cleaner Way to Get Ripped (www.theatlantic.com)
85. Inequality and homicide, within-country and between country (freerangestats.info)
86. The Democratic Governor Who Drinks Raw Milk (www.theatlantic.com)
87. What Happens When Trump Gets His Way With Science (www.theatlantic.com)
88. Immune Booster 18: From Stars to cells with Bali Pulendran (www.microbe.tv)
89. You’re Fired. Just Kidding! (www.theatlantic.com)
90. TWiV 1261: Must-see TVs (www.microbe.tv)
91. TWiV 1260: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
92. Something Weird Is Happening With Halloween Chocolate (www.theatlantic.com)
93. Immune Booster #17: From unvaccinated to vaccine advocacy with Liz Marnik (www.microbe.tv)
94. TWiV 1259: Capricious flu and a tickborne clue (www.microbe.tv)
95. Mapping locations related to the Amelia Earhart disappearance (freerangestats.info)
96. TWiV 1258: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
97. TWiV Special: Searching plane poop for viruses (www.microbe.tv)
98. Immune 96: How to floss a mouse (www.microbe.tv)
99. TWiV 1257: Better cocktails and CRISPR chicken (www.microbe.tv)
100. TWiV 1256: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
101. TWiV 1256: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
102. Ten year anniversary of Free Range Statistics (freerangestats.info)