"Researchers will often publish results that appear promising and important, but which turn out to be based on small numbers, a poorly selected sample, and a failure to analyse the data properly."

Several years back I wrote a piece about the photographs on the Auschwitz Memorial site, trying to account for the impact they achieve by simply providing a few basic facts about the lives that were interrupted.
quillette.com/2021/11/05/f...

Excellent article, arguing for the measured pursuit of novel public health strategies (such as the use of "gene drives" to control malaria) and, at the same time, to counter popular distrust and misinformation.

For the Sake of 600,000 Children, Science Must Be Bold www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/o...

Dan Gardner on how Canada should respond to Trump 2.0. Recognize that he is a sociopath, who cares about no one but himself. "We need to make the bastard bleed." "We must prepare to do so."

dgardner.substack.com/p/how-canada...

2 major articles in today's @nytimes highlight the extreme danger of Trump's pick of RFK, Jr. to head HHS.

"Questions today about the risk-benefit ratio of vaccines might just be a product of the vaccines’ own success."
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...