What is dangerous for pregnant women?
Remember to participate in the 2025 readers survey! There's a very large literature on the outcomes of children to mothers who did X. The problem with most of these is…
Is some alcohol good for you?
In medicine, there are two normal dose-response functions for a chemical (or other treatment) and your health. In the first case, any amount of the chemical is bad and more…
Why can’t we prevent or cure hangovers?
There is a nice theory in economics about why capitalism is better than socialism. It goes like this. Under socialism, central planners try to estimate what the public wants and…
THC and driving: Causal modeling and statistical controls
I am a major proponent of drug legalization, and have also been following the research on drugs' influence on driving skills. In media discourse, it is taken for granted that…
Cancer rates: Part 2, does alcohol consumption have incremental predictive power?
Same guy proposed another idea. Wikipedia has data here. However, since i had previously seen that people fudge data on Wikipedia articles (e.g. this one), then maybe it was not…
Moron of the day: Jacqui Dean
Wikipedia on Jacqui Dean. "Jacqueline Isobel (Jacqui) Dean (born 13 May 1957 in Palmerston North) is a New Zealand politician and the current Member of Parliament for the Waitaki electorate."…