“How the sausage is made in modern science”
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The NYT takes one data point at face value and declares: “Obesity Rate for Young Children Plummets 43% in a Decade”
But Razib Khan at Slate looks at the underlying JAMA study and finds suspicious signs of data mining: “If you do 10 flips of enough coins, you will at some point flip one to land on heads 10 times.”