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…
Category: Health
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…
[Note: A shorter, revised and on a few issues more up to date version of this piece has been published by Quillette as a four-part essay. The version on Quillette is more polished and a bit less polemical, but this…
[Note: A shorter, revised and on a few issues more up to date version of this piece has been published by Quillette as a four-part essay. The version on Quillette is more polished and a bit less polemical, but this…
[Note: A shorter, revised and on a few issues more up to date version of this piece has been published by Quillette as a four-part essay. The version on Quillette is more polished and a bit less polemical, but this…
[Note: A shorter, revised and on a few issues more up to date version of this piece has been published by Quillette as a four-part essay. The version on Quillette is more polished and a bit less polemical, but this…
[Note: A shorter, revised and on a few issues more up to date version of this piece has been published by Quillette as a four-part essay. The version on Quillette is more polished and a bit less polemical, but this…
As you probably know, for the past few months, a controversy has been raging about hydroxychloroquine. Some people think it’s effective to treat COVID-19, whereas others think it doesn’t work or even that it’s harmful. One might have thought that…
As you probably know if you’ve been following the discussions regarding the best way to deal with the pandemic, there has been a fierce debate about whether allowing the epidemic to run its course until we’ve reached “herd immunity” and…