Hypotheses – Mike the Mad Biologist

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False Positives, False Negatives, and Validation in Economics

October 12, 2011, 6:56 am

As I always note before ripping into economics, we need better economics, not simply to disparage the entire field. Economics does matter. Anyway… Peter Dorman notes this about the refusal of several...

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I Suppose This Is Worth Substantiating, But Is Anyone Surprised?

September 24, 2011, 7:04 am

This PLoS Medicine article came across the transom, with the following summary: These findings indicate that, in Finland, living alone is associated with an increased risk of alcohol-related mortality....

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Bin Laden’s Death Could Affect Obama’s 2012 Chances-But in an Indirect Way

May 5, 2011, 6:43 am

Part of the discussion surrounding the elimination of Osama bin Laden has taken a somewhat ghoulish turn: what does it mean for Obama‘s re–election chances? While I’m more of a zombies-eat-brains! type...

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To Be Scientifically Literate, You Do Have to Know Things

March 23, 2009, 7:35 am

After reading these two posts by ScienceBlogling Sheril (and the many comments) about scientific literacy, I suppose I’m in the minority about what scientific literacy. Unlike most of the commenters, I...

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One Quibble with (One of) Angry Bear’s Rules for Discussing Climate

May 10, 2008, 8:55 am

Over at Angry Bear, there’s a good list of suggestions, generated by one of the readers, of how non-scientists can assess claims made about global warming. I agree with most of them, except for the...

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