White House blames 'formatting' for errors in RFK Jr.'s MAHA report. Authors push back. Researchers listed in the MAHA report have come forward since its publication saying the articles cited don't exist or were used inaccurately.

"When scientific reform is weaponized to only denigrate science and scientists whose studies contradict your beliefs or your wishes, we get to a very dark place," says our Ivan Oransky.

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I wouldn’t let my students get away with this. It would be flagged as academic misconduct.

#stats #coding #documentation #education

What are the things that you insist on having when creating more data science-y materials, be it education or general use? Where does tradition end/style start?
1. Italicise non-English words
2. Using the Oxford comma
3. Using a monospaced font for code
4. Double or single space after a full stop?

Especially as I enjoyed and benefitted from your regression course.

Thank you! Will add!

@fredho42.bsky.social & Antonio Cannata, thank you!

GitHub - jocelynfriday/UsefulDataSceinceResources: Papers that I've fround to be particuarly useful for health data science research (including stats, epidemiology, coding, etc.) Papers that I've fround to be particuarly useful for health data science research (including stats, epidemiology, coding, etc.) - jocelynfriday/UsefulDataSceinceResources

Myself and a few others have been pulling together some useful health data science resoueces and references. What do you think, what are we missing? github.com/jocelynfrida...
#healthdatascience #r #stats #epidemiology

My life is much richer having these two in it.

I have standing donations and truly believe that NPR is worth every penny

Fingers crossed for a good outcome, I dare not imagine a world without their work.

Puzzle number 3!

Merry Christmas, Chanukah Sameach, and Seasons Greetings more generally.

Taken from Reviewer 2 Must Be Stopped.

Puzzle number 2 done!

On to puzzle number 2!

Done!

Puzzles are my traditional holiday activity. I'm looking forward to the challenge.

I would love to get people away from their reliance on the p-value. Explain, fails to reach significance/ not enough evidence to reject, etc.

Turkey Thai green curry soup is far superior to the standard cream one.

Happy holidays from Dot and Pixel! #adoptDontShop #guineapigsOfBSky