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To be meaningful you would have to correct for population density, otherwise I just see it being a map of population density.

Yes of course, but that involves me editing and re-presenting something that is not my work which somehow doesn't feel right to me. Formatted as a proper letter with full address of recipient at the top would more usefully serve the purpose @dave30th alluded to and that is beyond what I feel is...

Yes, it would be brilliant for this purpose, but a printer friendly pdf may be a better format. Is it possible to attach such to the blog?

Doesn't this mean that the PACE trial demonstrates (I don't use 'proves' since it's impossible to really prove anything much) that illness beliefs are not responsible for the illness. They did change illness beliefs a little but health did not change. That video is brilliant in it's hard...

It's rather like the way that Homeopathy gained a following because it didn't do as much harm as much of conventional medicine did in the 19th century.

I take it you are demonstrating the futility of engaging in argument with a Gish Gallop?

But... all this depends a bit on what is actually meant by "The atomic model of matter". Although some (@Jonathan Edwards) may split hairs about what the ancient Greeks meant by atoms, I think the general consensus in everyday talk today (such as in the original blog referenced above) the...

The link given by @Sly Saint is to a PhD thesis, not the paper mentioned in the OP. The paper (which I got from scihub) says "Received 22 April 2017; Received in revised form 1 October 2017; Accepted 29 May 2018"

I thought it was a useless piece of poorly written waffle that said nothing. Sorry I wasted my time reading it! The 2013 date (which I missed) I guess may explain the excessive focus on XMRV. ETA: The correct date is 2018, not 2013

That read like an advertisement for a law firm.

Since logit(p) is a map from the range 0->1 to -infinity->infinity, saying logit(p) is some number (any number) is a way to guarantee p is between 0 and 1 and hence interpretable as a probability. Is there anything more to it than that?

What is the mechanism to prevent self-attack? Does the thymus have a means of not producing self attacking T-cells? If so, does a defect here result in autoimmunity?

So Appeal to Authority is now good scientific reasoning rather than well established logical fallacy? One of the great commandments of science is, "Mistrust arguments from authority." - Carl Sagan

I suspect the consequence of the first test is to reduce the anaerobic threshold for a while. The PEM symptoms are just the way that reduction manifests itself. If you rest and do nothing to test the limits of the lower threshold you may not experience the PEM symptoms if your resting energy...

"Noticed" and "tend to be" are far less reliable research than the crap we complain about. I would be very wary of making such claims. Far too subject to recall bias etc.

Wouldn't this effectively preclude young researchers from reviewing papers by senior, influential authors in their field? The knowledge that those authors may be on a future job selection panel would undoubtedly impact what the young reviewer felt able to say. My memory of being asked to review...

Same in Australia. A quick google did find the same thing (I think) that is watchable in Australia at least here though:

Here's a complete set so anyone getting to here doesn't need to go further. These were downloaded in April 2011.

What this article is saying is that your chemistry teachers should view their inability to replicate as indicative that there is something about the process that they haven't fully understood. Some hidden variable that they thought was irrelevant but is in fact important. An unknown impurity in...

First response: ROFL Second response: The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool. - Richard Feynman