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1. It kinda makes sense that you can know roughly 700 people. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
2. I Remember America Before the Measles Vaccine (www.theatlantic.com)
3. Who wanted Trump to run in 2024? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
4. Marty Makary Set the Conditions for His Own Downfall (www.theatlantic.com)
5. TWiV 1321: Phage cross talk and cross reactions (www.microbe.tv)
6. More thoughts regarding comfortable, powerful people who seem willing or even eager to blow up the system. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
7. Admit It, That Protein Shake Is Basically Soylent (www.theatlantic.com)
8. TWiV 1320: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
9. “An Axiomatic Foundation for Decisions with Counterfactual Utility” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
10. ‘This Is Not Going to Be the Next COVID’ (www.theatlantic.com)
11. The Pick-the-Winner-Picker Heuristic: Preference for Categorically Correct Forecasts (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
12. What Happened on the Hantavirus Cruise, According to a Doctor On Board (www.theatlantic.com)
13. David W. Hogg on why we do astrophysics (in the face of LLMs and the lack of clinical value) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
14. Overall, I remain a fan of Oliver Sacks. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
15. Misoprostol Could Be Next (www.theatlantic.com)
16. Handbook of Markov chain Monte Carlo, second edition (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
17. A Brutal First for the Cruise Industry (www.theatlantic.com)
18. Survey Statistics: Blue Rose Research is (still) hiring ! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
19. Is government policy actually “virtually unrelated to the desires of the low- and middle-income citizens”? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
20. What Adding Race to BMI Can Do (www.theatlantic.com)
21. Immune Booster 28: Immunometabolism, Inflammation, and Building Biotechs with Luke O'Neill (www.microbe.tv)
22. Expanding the Stan User’s Guide (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
23. For once, some scientific fraudsters have to pay their money back to the government. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
24. An economist writes: “the fulminations over the #1 pick seem overheated to me.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
25. The Cost of ‘Natural’ Womanhood (www.theatlantic.com)
26. TWiV 1319: An earful of SARS-CoV-2 (www.microbe.tv)
27. John Carlin says, “‘Identifying variables that independently predict…’ is not a well-defined research task” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
28. Your Next Dog May Live Longer (www.theatlantic.com)
29. TWiV 1318: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
30. What advice do you have for this student who’s in his first year of college and interested in both statistics and political science? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
31. The Secret to Success Is ‘Monotasking’ (www.theatlantic.com)
32. The Trump Administration Casts Out the ‘Soul’ of MAHA (www.theatlantic.com)
33. A study is retracted after it turns out that its authors were misrepresented as “third-party experts” even though they were actually paid by the company? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
34. Show me science (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
35. Taking one more swing at the foolish nudgelords who associate the Soviet Union with environmental protection (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
36. Survey Statistics: exploded logit ! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
37. Two Health Economists Walk into a Bar: What bothered me in that conversation of Jay Bhattacharya and Emily Oster (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
38. Immune Booster 27: Interferons, JAKs, and STATs with George Stark (www.microbe.tv)
39. Is It the Shoes? (www.theatlantic.com)
40. MAHA’s Perfect Villain (www.theatlantic.com)
41. Hey! Try out the RMET (“the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test”). (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
42. Should French pollsters be using Mister P? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
43. Why isn’t it possible to play a fun and serious game of poker not for money? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
44. TWiV 1317: Dead shrimp walking (www.microbe.tv)
45. 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)
46. Blogging and writing style (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
47. TWiV 1316: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
48. Update on that un-published CDC report on covid vaccines (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
49. Three things I forgot to say today at the National Academy of Sciences Workshop on Enhancing Scientific Integrity (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
50. Trump 1 vs. Trump 2: The role of the two other branches of government (legislative and judicial) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
51. Probability theory corner: My favorite birthday-problem story (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
52. 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)
53. MAHA Swing Voters Are an Illusion (www.theatlantic.com)
54. Fraud and the false optimism of AI for science (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
55. Postmodern anti-science attitudes? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
56. A ‘Barbaric’ Problem in American Hospitals Is Only Getting Bigger (www.theatlantic.com)
57. Survey Statistics: dCV for MRP ? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
58. A Life Hack for the Ultra-Wealthy Is Going Mainstream (www.theatlantic.com)
59. Did Taylor Swift kill a bunch of people? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
60. Immune 103: Cytokines 101 (www.microbe.tv)
61. “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)
62. Eugene Wigner and the Moonies (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
63. TWiV 1315: Jabs for bats (www.microbe.tv)
64. “Making Your Research Free May Cost You” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
65. TWiV 1314: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
66. In ML, everyone’s Humpty Dumpty (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
67. Fascinating 1981 interview with Morris Kline, author of the classic book, Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
68. RFK Jr.’s New Normal (www.theatlantic.com)
69. The DNA Fix for Aging (www.theatlantic.com)
70. The Bayesian Workflow book is coming! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
71. Can you hit a home run off of Paul Skenes? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
72. Survey Statistics: irrelevant alternatives ? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
73. Epistemic Virtues for Science in the Age of Automation (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
74. How to report a N=12 study? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
75. Which beliefs are considered acceptable and which are not? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
76. All graphs are comparisons, and the relevance of this principle to practical advice for producing better graphs (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
77. TWiV 1313: Maybe they're all dementia vaccines (www.microbe.tv)
78. “The FTC does not have our backs, that much is clear” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
79. 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)
80. America Has a New GLP-1 Playbook (www.theatlantic.com)
81. TWiV 1312: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
82. The internet of poop (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
83. A Cancer Treatment That Does More Than Scientists Thought (www.theatlantic.com)
84. An application for training deep learning models in your browser (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
85. How the Whole-Grain Trend Went Wrong (www.theatlantic.com)
86. Immune Booster 26: Immune defense against parasitic worms with Irah King (www.microbe.tv)
87. The ChatGPT Symptom Spiral (www.theatlantic.com)
88. TWiV 1311: Jayhawks go viral (www.microbe.tv)
89. The Man Holding MAHA Together (www.theatlantic.com)
90. TWiV 1310: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
91. HHS Officials’ Year in Purgatory Is Ending (www.theatlantic.com)
92. Immune102: Living longer without B cells (www.microbe.tv)
93. Pacific island energy supply (freerangestats.info)
94. TWiV 1309: Maybe they're all cancer vaccines (www.microbe.tv)
95. TWiV 1308: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
96. TWiV 1307: My heart breaks for flu (www.microbe.tv)
97. Pacific island demograpy, the narrative (freerangestats.info)
98. TWiV 1306: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
99. Immune Booster 25: Out of the anti-vax woods with Ellen Woods (www.microbe.tv)
100. TWiV 1305: Lab leak idea called on the carpet (www.microbe.tv)
101. TWiV 1304: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)