During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, when disease epidemiologists want to be taken seriously by the public, they face an uphill battle. Blocking their progress are epidemiologists who casually link everything to diseases, often using food frequency questionnaires which have no scientific legitimacy.read...
read moreThere is a popular saying in statistics - "Everyone believes the data except the collector. No one believes the model except the modeler."read more
read moreWhen President Trump said he was going to restrict travel from China earlier this year due to coronavirus, I didn’t engage in the reflexive politics of corporate journalists and call him a racist, I just though it an overreaction. After all, the Whole Health Organisation did not consider it a pandemic and they usually hyperventilate about everything. They had even assured us it could not be...
read moreA homeopath, an economist, and a psychologist walk into a homeopathic ER...That is not the start of a joke, in Stockholm those three did start a homeopathic Emergency Room, as I was reminded by a 2014 Debunking Denialism post, so I went to see if they are still around, and sure enough and it still exists. They claim homeopathy "strengthens the immune system" whatever that means, and for...
read moreJournalist Chris Cuomo and his spouse were criticized after endorsing a variety of nonsense products recommended by their "naturopath" to treat his COVID-19 - claims that involved light energy, tinctures and a variety of useless placebos.read...
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