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Critical appraisal
2023/02/18
Confirmation bias as a misfire of normal Bayesian reasoning
2022/01/03
Philosophy emergency
2021/08/27
Show me the data
2021/04/28
Replication Crisis
2021/03/20
Issues with data and analyses. Errors, underlying themes, and potential solutions
2020/10/08
Bias in Bias Recognition
2020/09/04
Warning: Physics Envy May be Hazardous to Your Wealth
2020/07/12
Aleatory and epistemic uncertainties can completely derail medical research results
2020/05/24
Steve Milloy misfires
2020/05/05
The tendency of some modelers
2019/03/06
Stop Saying ‘Exponential.’ Sincerely, a Math Nerd.
2019/02/26
All scientific work is incomplete
2018/03/01
Is vaccine effectiveness (VE) different from vaccine efficacy
2018/02/06
An introduction to implementation science for the non-specialist
2018/01/02
Philosophy News Network: Postmodernism Special Report
2018/01/02
Recommendation: Philosophy News Network: Postmodernism Special Report
2017/10/19
When the revolution came for Amy Cuddy
2016/08/07
Bad examples of data analysis are bad examples to use in teaching
2016/01/25
The Empirical Evidence of Bias in Trials Measuring Treatment Differences
2015/12/07
Differences between information in registries and articles did not influence publication acceptance
2015/12/07
The COMPare Project
2015/12/02
A book review of my first book
2015/10/29
Quote: That’s not an experiment
2015/04/30
Improving Bioscience Research Reporting: The ARRIVE Guidelines for Reporting Animal Research
2015/01/15
The answer is 17 years, what is the question. Understanding time lags in translational research
2014/12/11
In search of justification for the unpredictability paradox
2013/12/10
Claims lacking specificity are meaningless
2013/11/27
Twenty tips for interpreting scientific claims
2011/12/08
Example abstracts for a training class
2011/06/15
How I became a skeptic
2010/12/01
Are certain CAM therapies undeserving of further study
2010/02/25
Is intuition real?
2009/06/30
The perils of self-evaluation
2008/11/05
Reading abstracts instead of the full paper
2008/10/19
Errors in statistical methodology
2008/08/20
Where to look for information in a controversial area
2008/08/08
Anti-intellectualism
2008/01/07
The post-modern assault on evidence-based medicine, part 3
2008/01/01
The glitter of…
2007/12/18
The post-modern assault on evidence-based medicine
2007/08/03
Which expert should you believe?
2007/07/07
The research world is not black and white
2007/04/11
When I talk about statistics
2007/04/04
The Seven Deadly Sins of Researchers
2007/03/13
Ignore weak evidence at your own peril
2006/09/13
Ambiguous nature of the word “risk”
2006/03/30
Contradictory research
2006/03/10
More on the Emily Rosa experiment
2005/10/24
A nice definition of anecdotal evidence
2005/08/05
Reporting of adverse events
2005/05/17
What is critical thinking?
2005/01/21
How good is your intuition?
2004/12/01
Entrenched beliefs
2004/11/02
Anecdotal information
2004/05/03
Overlooking one’s own flaws
2000/01/27
Flaws in a research paper
2000/01/27
Jargon in Statistics