- How the vaccine crisis was meant to make money – Part two of the BMJ’s coverage of Wakefield’s vaccine scam. This half exposes how Wakefield intended to profit from the fear he helped spread. Thanks to Denis and all the other readers who sent in related articles.
- Shameful gender discrimination at UC Davis Veterinary School – A professor asked his class to vote on what grade to give a pregnant student who he assumed would be missing quizzes.
- Bem’s ESP paper reignites old debate on statistical analysis – “For decades, some statisticians have argued that the standard technique used to analyze data in much of social science and medicine overstates many study findings — often by a lot. As a result, these experts say, the literature is littered with positive findings that do not pan out: “effective†therapies that are no better than a placebo; slight biases that do not affect behavior; brain-imaging correlations that are meaningless.” From James.
- Forensic DNA test can decipher hair color – “The new analysis used a collection of recently discovered mutations linked to hair color, and it can predict the hue of an unknown person’s hair with about 80 to 90 percent accuracy.”
