October 28, 2013
Some long reads
- Scott and scurvy. James Lind showed that citrus juice would cure scurvy, in the first controlled clinical trial, but the knowledge had been lost by the time of the Scott Antarctic Expedition. Interesting on history and on how facts depend on concepts.
- Inside 23andme: about personal genomics.
- Data are the new drugs: from Nautil.us, also about personal genomics
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »