As a perk of my job, I get a free subscription to the American Journal of Psychiatry. I am still not used to this. No enraging struggles with paywalls. No “one year embargo on full text”…| Slate Star Codex
Good news! 42% of doctors can correctly answer a true-false question on p-values! That’s only 8% worse than a coin flip! And this paragraph is your friendly reminder that six months after thi…| Slate Star Codex
I have frequently heard people cite John Ioannidis’ apparent claim that “90% of medical research is false”. I think John Ioannidis is a brilliant person and I love his work and I …| Slate Star Codex
I. Suppose I were to come out tomorrow as gay. I have amazing and wonderful friends, and I certainly wouldn’t expect them to hate me forever or tell me to burn in Hell or anything like that. …| Slate Star Codex
I. Allan Crossman calls parapsychology the control group for science. That is, in let’s say a drug testing experiment, you give some people the drug and they recover. That doesn’t tell …| Slate Star Codex