December 26, 2013

Back on topic

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Some links

  • NHS Choices has good reviews of health stories in the (UK) news. Their current one is about a story claiming frankincense can cure cancer, based on an irresponsible press release from the University of Leicester.
  • From the ‘Tracker’ blog at Knight School of Journalism, MIT: the year we cured cancer three times.
  • An interview with NY Times graphics expert Amanda Cox
  • A good story with bizarre scare headline in Stuff. The headline is “Kids at risk of strep-throat rise”, the actual story is about a throat-swab testing program to identify at-risk kids — the number identified is rising because that’s what happens as you test people.
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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 »