Thanks to AS! I don’t have your email, so I hope you see this. The epidemiologist fallacy occurs when a scientist announces, directly or implicitly, that X Causes Y, but where X […]

There are a lot of new readers, and many may not yet have heard of the epidemiologist fallacy. Few tools have been as productive at generating The Science. You know The Science. […]

I made this picture for my talk at the first ever public Broken Science event (videos coming soon): Everybody has heard the saying “correlation doesn’t imply causation.” Taken loosely, it seems wrong, […]

A new walks-into-a-bar joke begins (thanks to reader Kip Hansen for the tip): A mathematician, a philosopher and a gambler walk into a bar. As the barman pulls each of them a […]

I was having an argument with a friend who was on his way to a conference to point out the shortcomings and over-confidence of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM). With EBM, you can’t […]

Robert Sapolsky, a Stanford academic, took decades—decades, he says—to conclude he does not have free will. He chose now as the time to tell us of his decades-long, fruitless search for himself. […]

See the new analysis at the bottom, prompted by a question from Joe Bastardi. Update I have two words for the people who did this. You know what they are. Police are […]

Since many won’t believe it: NEW: Biden admin considering nationwide ban on gas stoves – Bloomberg report — Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) January 9, 2023 And in a remarkable coincidence, this also came […]