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  1. 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)
  2. Everyone Hates Groupthink. Experts Aren’t Sure It Exists. (www.theatlantic.com)
  3. TWiV 1267: A cancer vaccine and an mpox treatment (www.microbe.tv)
  4. 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)
  5. TWiV 1266: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  6. America’s Grocery Lifeline Is Fraying (www.theatlantic.com)
  7. Studying sex ratios is just a lot harder than you think: effects are tiny and variation is large. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  8. The last time it seemed that the country was coming apart (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  9. The WAR war and the electoral benefits of running more moderate candidates for political office (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  10. No, this is not “the most unpredictable race for mayor that New York City has seen in decades” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  11. The Obesity-Drug Revolution Is Stalling (www.theatlantic.com)
  12. Survey Statistics: Blue Rose Research is hiring ! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  13. The stated purpose of a program is not always the same as its real purpose (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  14. Immune 97: Bystander B cells go bananas (www.microbe.tv)
  15. Trump Needs the UN in Gaza (www.theatlantic.com)
  16. Reading like it’s 1937 (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  17. Hey Philip Larkin, I don’t get what you were saying here! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  18. TWiV 1265: mRNA vaccines make cancer treatment great again (www.microbe.tv)
  19. The Pitfalls of Sleepmaxxing (www.theatlantic.com)
  20. Even the easiest data requests can require some effort (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  21. TWiV 1264: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  22. Assistant professor position at USI in Lugano (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  23. David Owen writes about hearing aids (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  24. Was Admiral Poindexter a terrorist? (Who’s in charge of your prediction market?) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  25. Sabbatical and pre-faculty positions at Flatiron Institute in NYC (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  26. 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)
  27. Survey Statistics: individualism doesn’t work (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  28. No Appointments, No Nurses, No Private Insurance Needed (www.theatlantic.com)
  29. Reanalysis of that Nobel prizewinning study of patents and innovation (with R and Stan code) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  30. Bayesian probability, like frequentist probability, is a model-based activity that is mathematically anchored by physical randomization at one end and calibration to a reference set at the other (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  31. Collective sensemaking event in NYC, October 26 (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  32. Aversive statistical methods explain differences in “dark” publication in PNAS across subject areas (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  33. TWiV 1263: Dementia vaccine? (www.microbe.tv)
  34. The war on data, 2025 edition (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  35. TWiV 1262: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  36. The Cleaner Way to Get Ripped (www.theatlantic.com)
  37. Separating the whack from the chaff in critiques of decision theory (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  38. The importance of essentialism in children’s and adults’ conceptions of the world (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  39. Inequality and homicide, within-country and between country (freerangestats.info)
  40. Generalizing Treatment Effects from Trials to EHR Populations (Qixuan Chen’s talk this Tues morning) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  41. The Democratic Governor Who Drinks Raw Milk (www.theatlantic.com)
  42. What Happens When Trump Gets His Way With Science (www.theatlantic.com)
  43. “All Our Default Models Are Wrong: Causal inference for varying treatment effects”: my talk this Saturday morning in Ottawa (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  44. Questions about statistical claims in paper from recent Nobel prize winners; some general challenges in trying understand nonlinear patterns using quadratic regression (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  45. Survey Statistics: MRPW (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  46. Stockholm Syndrome (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  47. Immune Booster 18: From Stars to cells with Bali Pulendran (www.microbe.tv)
  48. You’re Fired. Just Kidding! (www.theatlantic.com)
  49. StanCon 2026 in Uppsala, Sweden (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  50. “The Impossible Man”: Patchen Barss’s biography of Roger Penrose (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  51. This is what a degree in cannabis studies will get ya (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  52. TWiV 1261: Must-see TVs (www.microbe.tv)
  53. 7 reasons to use Bayesian inference! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  54. TWiV 1260: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  55. Columbia fake U.S. News statistics update: They paid $9 million and are still, bizarrely, refusing to admit misreporting of data, even though everybody knows they misreported data. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  56. The worst research papers I’ve ever published (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  57. Prior distributions for regression coefficients (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  58. Selection bias in junk science: Which junk science gets a hearing? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  59. Aki looking for a doctoral student to develop Bayesian workflow (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  60. Survey Statistics: struggles with equivalent weights (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  61. Something Weird Is Happening With Halloween Chocolate (www.theatlantic.com)
  62. Historical American Political Finance Data at the National Archives (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  63. Immune Booster #17: From unvaccinated to vaccine advocacy with Liz Marnik (www.microbe.tv)
  64. “300 Paintings” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  65. When rich people believe, or pretend to believe, stupid things (tennis edition) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  66. Uncanny academic valley: Brian Wansink as proto-chatbot (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  67. TWiV 1259: Capricious flu and a tickborne clue (www.microbe.tv)
  68. Unusual consulting request (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  69. Mapping locations related to the Amelia Earhart disappearance (freerangestats.info)
  70. TWiV 1258: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  71. It’s a JAX, JAX, JAX, JAX World (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  72. Pediatricians Can’t Bear These Costs (www.theatlantic.com)
  73. Adding noise to the data to reduce overfitting . . . How does that work? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  74. Pfizer Finally Gave Trump What He Wanted (www.theatlantic.com)
  75. “It’s horrible that they’re sucking young researchers into this vortex. It’s Gigo and Gresham all the way down.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  76. Yes, your single vote really can make a difference! (in Canada) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  77. TWiV Special: Searching plane poop for viruses (www.microbe.tv)
  78. Survey Statistics: beyond balancing (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  79. “Dangerous Fictions” and the norm of entertainment (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  80. Immune 96: How to floss a mouse (www.microbe.tv)
  81. TWiV 1257: Better cocktails and CRISPR chicken (www.microbe.tv)
  82. TWiV 1256: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  83. TWiV 1256: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  84. Ten year anniversary of Free Range Statistics (freerangestats.info)
  85. Trump Tells Pregnant Women to ‘Fight Like Hell’ Not to Take Tylenol (www.theatlantic.com)
  86. People Are Getting Tattoos Under Anesthesia (www.theatlantic.com)
  87. TWiV 1255: Virologists in Greece (www.microbe.tv)
  88. TWiV 1254: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  89. America Is on the Cusp of a Two-Tier Vaccine System (www.theatlantic.com)
  90. Kennedy’s Handpicked Vaccine Committee Is a Mess (www.theatlantic.com)
  91. How RFK Jr. Could Eliminate Vaccines Without Banning Them (www.theatlantic.com)
  92. Who to Trust If You Can’t Trust the CDC (www.theatlantic.com)
  93. The Outbreaks That Could Rise on College Campuses (www.theatlantic.com)
  94. What It’s Like to Work Inside a Broken CDC (www.theatlantic.com)
  95. RFK Jr. Is Neglecting a Legitimate Autism Concern (www.theatlantic.com)
  96. The New War on Weed (www.theatlantic.com)
  97. Moms Are Losing Options to Protect Newborns From COVID (www.theatlantic.com)
  98. Immune Booster #16: Teaching and communicating immunology with Aimee Pugh Bernard (www.microbe.tv)
  99. The HHS Officials Being Paid Six Figures to Do Nothing (www.theatlantic.com)
  100. TWiV 1253: Harvard virology is not retreating (www.microbe.tv)
  101. TWiV 1252: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  102. TWiV Special: David Baltimore, remembered (www.microbe.tv)
  103. TWiV 1251: Swedish models and agent 007 (www.microbe.tv)
  104. Some Papua New Guinea data doodles (freerangestats.info)
  105. TWiV 1250: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)