Friday, May 17, 2013

New post, new site.

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Dear Readers of EBF, Blogger's been great (and free), but I always felt I was missing a little somethin' somethin' by not havi...
Saturday, March 23, 2013

30 seconds of idiocy. The cure for cancer is delayed by decades.

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There was a really interesting letter in the journal Nature on Thursday, "Australia's grant system wastes time," which was a...
Sunday, March 3, 2013

Hey, ass-hat with the abstract link. Yeah. You.

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[Edit: More than a few readers gave me feedback about my use of a derivative of the r-word, which has gone from a medical term still used...
Monday, February 25, 2013

To anyone that says, "A randomized controlled trial in nutrition is impossible!" I can now say, "You just don't want it badly enough."

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Should you go on the Mediterranean diet? As you are already probably aware, the Mediterranean diet is one of the diets that started it a...
Thursday, February 14, 2013

How statistics can protect your willpower

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Today is Valentine's Day (Happy Valentine's/Bitter Single's Day!). So I thought I'd give my post a brain-washing theme (cy...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Why not 0.06?

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Steve Accera asked me an interesting question a few months back. Why is 0.05 the cut-off for a p-value to be considered statistically sign...
Monday, January 21, 2013

You are going to die.

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So there's been ANOTHER study on some food and mortality. Last time, it was red meat. This time, it's eggs. To be honest, I'm ...