It was recently brought to my attention by several people that Andrew Gelman, a statistician at Columbia whose blog is a must-read for anyone interested in applied statistics, had discussed my critique of Flaxman et al.’s paper on the effectiveness…

If you have followed the debate about how we should deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, you know that people have been fighting about Sweden since it decided to  forego lockdowns and use a more relaxed approach. You wouldn’t know about…

As Europe and the United States are experiencing a second or third wave of the pandemic, depending on how you count, the debate about lockdowns is raging again. Many people are convinced they are the best way to deal with…