In previous elections I’ve noticed an interesting thing if you look at per-county results. The main news results focus on per-state results for which state went “Red” versus “Blue” (aside: why is most of the world equating ‘Red’ with Communism and in the U.S. it’s equated with Conservatives?). But what’s more interesting is […]

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…is Joseph at Autism Natural Variation.
It turns out that he can’t find the correlation between precipitation levels and autism diagnoses that Waldman et al study; he too points out that urbanicity was not controlled for; and he even thinks a bit of cherry picking may have occurred.
Meanwhile, Steve Novella is a bit less harsh, but […]

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The best ethical questions are real ones. Sure, it’s fun to play the lifeboat game, but when you’re dealing with flesh and blood human beings on a daily basis, games aren’t all that helpful. So here’s a non-life-and-death question: if a patient comes to see you and smells of alcohol, can you add an alcohol […]

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