Let’s Tackle Ebola. Now.

Sheri Fink in The New York Times: The Ebola epidemic has exposed gaping holes in the [World Health Organization (WHO)’s] ability to tackle outbreaks in

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Deliberately bad designs

Katerina Kamprani “has fun imagining the worst possible user experience with useless objects.” Here’s one of many at the link: @afrakt

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Rate shock? Not so much.

Sure, doom has been predicted at every turn, but it’s hard to look at this and keep on screaming that the sky is falling: Sure,

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Halbig

As Nick predicted, the DC Circuit vacated the prior opinion and will rehear the case en banc. See Jon Cohn for the plain language context.

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Stand Up! – September 3, 2014

I am a frequent guest on Stand Up! with Pete Dominick, which airs on Sirius/XM radio, channel 104 from 6-9AM Eastern. It immediately replays on the channel, so

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Methods: Design trumps analysis

Below are my highlights from Donald Rubin’s “For Objective Causal Inference, Design Trumps Analysis.” All of the following are quotes from the paper with my emphasis

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Keep doing more; expect nothing for it.

JAMA. “Use of and Mortality After Bilateral Mastectomy Compared With Other Surgical Treatments for Breast Cancer in California, 1998-2011“: Importance: Bilateral mastectomy is increasingly used

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Family dinners are important

From JAMA Pediatrics, “Cyberbullying Victimization and Mental Health in Adolescents and the Moderating Role of Family Dinners“: Importance: This study presents evidence that cyberbullying victimization

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