Thursday, May 14, 2009

Cheerios vs the FDA

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Via Tyler Cowen , there is this new article . So, because health research is being cited, Cheerios are a drug? So what is the rationale for...
Wednesday, May 6, 2009

What should your final model be?

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In the decision to present the best possible model based on the weight of evidence, should you present the results of Bayesian Model Averagi...
Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Measuring changes

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Is there anything trickier than measuring changes? Probably, yes, but this has got to be competitive for the difficulty in translating clea...
Monday, May 4, 2009

Mission Creep

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Professor in Training has a post on the amazing amount of time that it takes to certify a lab and/or a researcher. I find it very interest...
Friday, May 1, 2009

Sick Days part 2

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A nice follow-up to my post yesterday about the public health issues of poor sick leave policy . This area is a place where there is a bad ...
Thursday, April 30, 2009

Sick Days

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Do we get enough here in the United States? I wonder what the contribution to public health would look like if we made it unacceptable to s...
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Academic Reform

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Any attack on an entrenched institution seems to draw strong feelings as to whether the critique is justified. However, this one seems to ...
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Bayesian Priors

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I know that it is difficult to actually create a prior that substantively influences a point estimate (except by design). But I always find...

Aetiology

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This epidemiology site has an excellent coverage of the current swine flu outbreak. It is nice to see some smart commenting on the progres...
Monday, April 27, 2009

Swine Flu

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Well, it looks like there is a case in Northern California now. Joy! It is unclear, when the numbers are so low, what will be the size of ...
Thursday, April 23, 2009

OT: Truly bad ideas

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Mark has a nice question about a suggestion from the Ohio militia to have 1,000,000 armed people march on Washington as a demonstration. Wha...
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Pay if forward

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MsPhD brings up an interesting point : what is the duty of people in the field to ensure the success of the next generation? Modern science...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

You can never go home

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Today's post by an post-doc [chall] reminded me of my own immigration experiences. It was a very depressing and demoralizing time peri...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Only in Canada

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I encountered his thought provoking article on a science blog : Gordon, R. & B.J. Poulin (2009). Cost of the NSERC science grant peer re...
Friday, April 17, 2009

OT: Pension Plans

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A recent post has me wondering about how aware people are of how things are linked. A pension plan based on future government promise is n...