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1. TWiV 1276: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
2. The Vaccine Guardrails Are Gone (www.theatlantic.com)
3. The Sapolsky Sanction (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
4. When the numbers don’t look right, check them! (Mississippi education update) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
5. From Bayesian inference to LLMs (Steve Bronder’s 2025 CppCon talk) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
6. Gerd Gigerenzer on the legacy of Daniel Kahneman (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
7. Net migration in Pacific island countries (freerangestats.info)
8. Survey Statistics: probability samples vs epsem samples vs SRS samples (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
9. Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein in a remake of The Big Clock (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
10. America Refuses to Go Bald (www.theatlantic.com)
11. Effective sample size depends on the quantity (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
12. How much of “Mississippi’s education miracle” is an artifact of selection bias? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
13. Sermet Pekin’s open-source project that discovers blogs through recursive network exploration (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
14. TWiV 1275: An amazing sequence and a gutsy therapy (www.microbe.tv)
15. What’s it like to be the child of a white-collar criminal? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
16. Visual summaries of population in Pacific islands (freerangestats.info)
17. TWiV 1274: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
18. Flagging when the prior distribution is informative (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
19. You’re on Ozempic? How Quaint. (www.theatlantic.com)
20. Larry Summers, Ken Starr, Jeffrey Epstein, and everyone else (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
21. Effective sample size (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
22. The three funniest items on the Kroger recall list (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
23. The purpose of science vs. the purpose of scientists (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
24. A War on Facts About Thanksgiving Dinner (www.theatlantic.com)
25. Survey Statistics: quantity vs quality (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
26. Problems with the so-called gender equality paradox (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
27. Immune 98: T cells on the brain (www.microbe.tv)
28. Some thoughts on empirical distributions of z-scores (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
29. Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right? (www.theatlantic.com)
30. Who has the lowest Erdos-Bacon-Epstein number? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
31. The signal-to-noise ratio in statistics (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
32. TWiV 1273: EBV and lupus have not escaped our notice (www.microbe.tv)
33. “The Limits of Ethical AI” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
34. TWiV 1272: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
35. Who wants no kid vax law? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
36. Do Childhood Vaccines Cause Tornadoes? (www.theatlantic.com)
37. Pour One Out for Weed Seltzer (www.theatlantic.com)
38. “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)
39. The CDC’s Website Is Anti-Vaccine Now (www.theatlantic.com)
40. Three meta-principles of statistics: the information principle, the methodological attribution problem, and different applications demand different philosophies (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
41. StatRetro: The twitter feed that spits out our old blog posts, one at a time, every 8 hours (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
42. RFK Jr.’s Miasma Theory of Health Is Spreading (www.theatlantic.com)
43. Whoa-zempic! (www.theatlantic.com)
44. 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)
45. Survey Statistics: sampling the sample (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
46. Under what sort of systematic reporting errors will science be self-correcting, or not? And do gardening programs reduce obesity? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
47. America Has a Baby-Formula Problem—Again (www.theatlantic.com)
48. The Aristocrats! (Found poetry in the email archive) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
49. A Borgesian blog idea (and nothing to do with forking paths) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
50. Sociology of science: What does it take for erroneous or fraudulent claims to take hold? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
51. TWiV 1271: Hokies go viral II (www.microbe.tv)
52. The density of fraud (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
53. RFK Jr.’s Cheer Squad Is Getting Restless (www.theatlantic.com)
54. TWiV 1270: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
55. The fifth anniversary of a viral histogram (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
56. 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)
57. The Democrats were lucky that the election was last week and not next week. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
58. The value of close reading: Larry Summers edition (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
59. Noted economist likes to talk about demographics but he doesn’t know the actual facts. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
60. America’s Best Pasta Is Slipping Away (www.theatlantic.com)
61. “Belief in the law of small numbers” as a way to understand the continuing appeal of junk science (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
62. Who Would Want to Kill 314 Ostriches? (www.theatlantic.com)
63. Survey Statistics: weights and MRP for voters (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
64. The Patches That Want to Fix Your Sleep, Sex, and Focus (www.theatlantic.com)
65. 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)
66. Immune Booster 19: Virus-immune Tug-of-war with Kristian Andersen (www.microbe.tv)
67. The acupuncture paradox and its resolution (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
68. What intro stats textbook to use? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
69. TWiV 1269: The smell of influenza in the morning (www.microbe.tv)
70. “Science and Religious Dogmatism” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
71. Distribution of p-values under the null hypothesis for discrete data (freerangestats.info)
72. TWiV 1268: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
73. MSc and PhD programs in statistics at the University of British Columbia (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
74. Conflicting statistical evidence on the long-term effects of children on being whacked by their parents (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
75. The Epidemiologists Are Running for Office (www.theatlantic.com)
76. Trump’s Ozempic Deal Has a Major Flaw (www.theatlantic.com)
77. The model underlying R-hat and a Bayesian estimator (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
78. If Cuomo had been able to run against Mamdani head-to-head, would he have won? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
79. Politics and poker: The theoretical appeal of the Cuomo non-party campaign for mayor (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
80. Discrepancies between polls and election outcomes in 2025 (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
81. Americans on Food Stamps Have No Good Options (www.theatlantic.com)
82. Predictive Modelling for Football Analytics is available! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
83. The Inflammation Gap (www.theatlantic.com)
84. In Defense of ‘Groupthink’ (www.theatlantic.com)
85. TWiV 1267: A cancer vaccine and an mpox treatment (www.microbe.tv)
86. TWiV 1266: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
87. America’s Grocery Lifeline Is Fraying (www.theatlantic.com)
88. The Obesity-Drug Revolution Is Stalling (www.theatlantic.com)
89. Immune 97: Bystander B cells go bananas (www.microbe.tv)
90. Trump Needs the UN in Gaza (www.theatlantic.com)
91. TWiV 1265: mRNA vaccines make cancer treatment great again (www.microbe.tv)
92. The Pitfalls of Sleepmaxxing (www.theatlantic.com)
93. TWiV 1264: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
94. No Appointments, No Nurses, No Private Insurance Needed (www.theatlantic.com)
95. TWiV 1263: Dementia vaccine? (www.microbe.tv)
96. TWiV 1262: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
97. Inequality and homicide, within-country and between country (freerangestats.info)
98. Immune Booster 18: From Stars to cells with Bali Pulendran (www.microbe.tv)
99. TWiV 1261: Must-see TVs (www.microbe.tv)
100. TWiV 1260: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)