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  1. RFK Jr. Is Out for Revenge (www.theatlantic.com)
  2. “AI Needs Specialization to Generalize” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  3. Long COVID Showed Me the Bottom of American Health Care (www.theatlantic.com)
  4. The Evermaskers (www.theatlantic.com)
  5. There’s no accounting for taste, whodunnit edition. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  6. Plagiarist USC celebrity doctor: What’s he been up to lately? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  7. It’s About Time: my (remote) talk this Thursday in Sweden (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  8. Who could have imagined it? The IPCC working group 1 folks. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  9. Where sports, statistics, and literature meet: Comparing David Fleming to Bill James (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  10. The reciprocal betrayals of Saul Bellow and Paul Meehl (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  11. TWiV 1205: Pluviosity didn't kill the bat (www.microbe.tv)
  12. “The Unbuilt Bench: Experimental Psychology on the Verge of Science” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  13. The Most Important Ingredient in Chewing Gum (www.theatlantic.com)
  14. TWiV 1204: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  15. New Yorker magazine demonstrates a naive faith in social science (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  16. Texas Never Wanted RFK Jr.’s Unproven Measles Treatment (www.theatlantic.com)
  17. The NIH’s Most Reckless Cuts Yet (www.theatlantic.com)
  18. Solve a simpler version of the problem. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  19. Individual probability, model multiplicity, and multicalibration (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  20. On that claim about “How does energy impact economic growth” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  21. Let’s analyze how we analyze! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  22. RFK Jr. and the Pepperoni-Pizza Paradox (www.theatlantic.com)
  23. Routine, bread-and-butter, run-of-the-mill junk science from 2015 (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  24. The Paradox of Hard Work (www.theatlantic.com)
  25. Immune 90: Immunology of Injury (www.microbe.tv)
  26. We have here two papers that are critical of the culture of academic economics. Where can they be published? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  27. America Is Done Pretending About Meat (www.theatlantic.com)
  28. “Can I teach integral calculus before differential calculus?” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  29. TWiV 1203: What's old is flu again (www.microbe.tv)
  30. An ‘Impossible’ Disease Outbreak in the Alps (www.theatlantic.com)
  31. The piranha principle: What does it mean, exactly? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  32. TWiV 1202: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  33. What It Really Means to ‘Give Infectious Disease a Break’ (www.theatlantic.com)
  34. You can learn a lot from a simple simulation (example of experimental design with unequal variances for treatment and control data) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  35. Ph.D. student position on extreme precipitation in a changing cold climate! Using Bayesian modeling and computation! At the University of Iceland! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  36. Starting a new position at the University of British Columbia (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  37. How is an American research university funded? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  38. Dr. Oz Is Now the Grown-Up in the Room (www.theatlantic.com)
  39. Everything TV Taught You About Autopsies Is Wrong (www.theatlantic.com)
  40. Why I use the term “forking paths” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  41. New paper on conformal prediction and human decisions (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  42. Speaking of government waste . . . (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  43. Why isn’t the Cramer-Rao lower bound invoked more in applied research? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  44. The COVID Mistake No One Talks Enough About (www.theatlantic.com)
  45. Immune Booster #10 HIV in the brain with Amanda Brown (www.microbe.tv)
  46. How is the integrity crisis in business reporting like the integrity crisis in science? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  47. What’s the best artistic/literary format for conveying the feel of the slacker lifestyle? Two slacker stories by Lucy Sante and Matt Madden. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  48. TWiV 1201: Booster shots with Adam Ratner (www.microbe.tv)
  49. Elections for the Stan Governing Body 2025 (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  50. The World’s Deadliest Infectious Disease Is About to Get Worse (www.theatlantic.com)
  51. Double Feature: Revolutionary Road and That Darned Chatbot (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  52. TWiV 1200: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  53. RFK Jr. Has Already Broken His Vaccine Promise (www.theatlantic.com)
  54. The NIH’s Grant Terminations Are ‘Utter and Complete Chaos’ (www.theatlantic.com)
  55. Debate about “quantum supremacy” . . . whatever that is! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  56. Is conceptual purity the defining aesthetic in academic computer science? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  57. Intelligence as a personal attribute or as a way of being (a reflection on when intelligent people say stupid things) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  58. Those youth sports travel teams (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  59. StanBio Connect 2025 (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  60. A Great Way to Get Americans to Eat Worse (www.theatlantic.com)
  61. America Is Sleeping on a Powerful Defense Against Airborne Disease (www.theatlantic.com)
  62. What does Jesus have to do with linear regression? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  63. His Daughter Was America’s First Measles Death in a Decade (www.theatlantic.com)
  64. Contestants and AI competitor predict cherry blossoms this month! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  65. The value of remembering past failures: the example of Mars One (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  66. TWiV 1199: Loosely contained (www.microbe.tv)
  67. 70,000 Assyrians (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  68. TWiV 1198: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  69. “A Post Mortem on the Gino Case”: “Committing fraud is, right now, a viable career strategy that can propel you at the top of the academic world.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  70. America Is Botching Measles (www.theatlantic.com)
  71. The answer to the how-many-significant-digits problem is the same as the answer to the what-to-graph problem: The click-through solution (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  72. At the NIH, Intolerance Will No Longer Be Tolerated (www.theatlantic.com)
  73. The Health Official Who Just Might Stand Up to RFK Jr. (www.theatlantic.com)
  74. Playing music, listening to music, background music, talking about music (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  75. What Ketamine Does to the Human Brain (www.theatlantic.com)
  76. No, an election forecast that’s 50-50 is not “giving up.” No, the election forecasters in 2024 did not say, “Whatever happened, it was supposed to be razor thin.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  77. One Potential Benefit of RFK Jr.’s Crusade Against Outside Influence (www.theatlantic.com)
  78. My desert island discs (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  79. Looking at your watch a third time waiting in the station for the bus (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  80. “On or about December 2010 the behavioral sciences changed” and Eggers on The case against Hypothesis 1 (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  81. TWiV 1197: The long and short of influenza (www.microbe.tv)
  82. Positive but not perfect correlations in novel-writing and psychometrics (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  83. TWiV 1196: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  84. The R-squared on this is kinda low, no? (Nobel prize edition) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  85. Experts can see for miles; non-experts are walking around in the tall grass and can’t see past their next step. When it comes to geometry, I’m no expert. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  86. Immune 89: Misplaced antibodies and foreign food foes (www.microbe.tv)
  87. Our proposal for scheduled post-publication review: “Even if each review took twice the effort of the average pre-publication review, our system would add only 1 percent to the total reviewing effort, while providing important perspectives on papers representing more than one-quarter of the citations received by these influential journals.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  88. You can nominate someone for the American Statistical Association’s Excellence in Statistical Reporting Award (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  89. TWiV 1195: Dickson Despommier, parasitologist without borders (www.microbe.tv)
  90. TWiV 1194: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  91. TWiV 1193: HPV or not to B (www.microbe.tv)
  92. TWiV 1192: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  93. TWiV 1191: The pandemic duo (www.microbe.tv)
  94. TWiV 1190: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  95. TWiV 1189: Viruses making waves (www.microbe.tv)