Comment on April 2014 Media Thread

Tue, 01 Apr 2014 15:46:00 GMT

Politics/religion:

"How Interest Rates Were Set, 2500 BC – 1000 AD"

"How Successful Was Christianity?"

"How is the biomarker ID aid plan going in India?"

"The Chaos Company: Wherever governments can’t—or won’t—maintain order, from oil fields in Africa to airports in Britain and nuclear facilities in America, the London-based “global security” behemoth G4S has been filling the void"

"Book Review: A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja, by Joost R. Hiltermann"

Statistics:

"Laplace the Bayesianista and the Mass of Saturn"

"Why do Phase III Trials of Promising Heart Failure Drugs Often Fail? The Contribution of 'Regression to the Truth'", Krum & Tonkin 2003 (excerpts)

"The Efficacy of Psychological, Educational, and Behavioral Treatment: Confirmation From Meta-Analysis", Lipsey & Wilson 1993 (I love these meta-meta-analyses, since they let you say things like 'Published studies yield mean effects 0.14 SDs larger than unpublished studies.' Isn't that useful to know?)

Literature:

"Sanderson's First Law" of fantasy

Medicine:

"Biomarkers and Long-term Labour Market Outcomes: The Case of Creatine"

Caloric restriction, evidence pyramid, and drug risks

"Meta-Regression Analyses, Meta-Analyses, and Trial Sequential Analyses of the Effects of Supplementation with Beta-Carotene, Vitamin A, and Vitamin E Singly or in Different Combinations on All-Cause Mortality: Do We Have Evidence for Lack of Harm?", Bjelakovic et al 2013

Discuss