Month: October 2014
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The Math Behind the ‘Shoe Size-Age’ Trick
If you want to impress people with a math trick this Halloween, just be sure their birthday is sometime before November… and don’t show it to any centenarians!
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From Which Cancer Will You Die?
About 25% of Americans will end up with “cancer” written on their death certificates.
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CDC Lost Its Ebola Gamble
The CDC needs to find a spokesperson who can properly spell out exactly what scientists do and do not know about Ebola.
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How to Make Scientists Publish the Truth
This article was originally published on RealClearScience. John Ioannidis is (in)famous in the scientific community. Using straightforward logic and statistics, he convincingly demonstrated that most published research articles are wrong. This is not because scientists are liars and crooks, but because studies often do not have large enough sample sizes or are testing unlikely hypotheses.…
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Are Liberals or Conservatives More Anti-Vaccine?
The bottom line is that the CDC data makes it very difficult to argue that conservatives and liberals share equal blame in the anti-vaccine war. Anti-vaxxers are clearly more associated with the political Left.
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Getting Cancer at San Francisco Airport
The foolishness in California is the inevitable consequence of a chemophobic society that wields the evil twins of regulation and litigation as weapons in a fruitless effort to achieve the impossible: a life completely free of any risk whatsoever.
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To End Suicide Epidemic, Make Guns Harder to Get
A sensible policy to lower the suicide rate in America would be to make gun ownership more difficult.