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Modeling Gone Bad

January 6, 2023
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Commentary A new paper documents that the pre-vaccination case fatality rate was extremely low in the non-elderly population. Age-stratified infection fatality rate of COVID-19 in the non-elderly population Environmental Research, Volume 216, Part 3, 1 January 2023, 114655 Abstract “The largest burden of COVID-19 is carried by the elderly, and persons living in nursing homes…

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How to Model Fallacy, According to the Lancet

July 5, 2022
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Commentary There is supposed to be a clear line between medical publishing and propaganda. No less so than in the pages of the Lancet, previously considered a relative bastion of integrity in publishing. Honesty in medical publishing, meaning publication on the basis of transparent rigorous review and impartiality, is of particular importance to medicine and public…

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Why Is the Human Being Not Like a Machine?

January 11, 2022
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Commentary In defense of regulatory mandates during oral arguments, the following words were spoken by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor: “Why is a human being not like a machine if it’s spewing a virus?” For her, it is a simple matter: regulatory impositions rule the machine world so why not the human one too? The…

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