The Cranky Analyst

I spend a lot of time bashing epidemiological papers, because they are such easy targets and get such breathless headlines . I am pleased t...

grants due early fall cast shadow on last weekends of fading summer

I have discovered the driver of the Finnish education miracle ! It's not the lack of testing , or the well-paid teachers , or the late s...

Aigh! Coffee won't kill me, but bad science (and science reporting) might.  " In a study of more than 40,000 individuals, resear...

In today's headlines, a story about autism that communicates science so much better than was the case in the cocoa debacle. This is a w...

I have a new paper with my Cambridge collaborators on the effects of Boston's charter schools on preparation for college and college ...

" A study of 60 elderly people with no dementia found two cups of cocoa a day improved blood flow to the brain in those who had prob...