Anonymous left a comment on Medical Marijuana in Michigan:
This article hurts the proposal more than helps it…while medicinal marijuana may prove beneficial, there are significant reasons why marijuana should not be legalized to the general public.
The crux of my post was, “Who cares if medicinal marijuana is on the ballot?” Medical marijuana may be [...]
The CoyoteBlog explodes the methodology of a recent study which appears to show that the health care system in the U.S. is significantly worse than other developed countries. One choice tidbit:
I have a very smart reader group, so my sense is that many of you already see the gaffe here. [...]
I haven’t heard or read much hullabaloo about last week’s news (or was it two weeks ago) about comparative bullet analysis, which has basically been revealed as pseudo-science, at best. Of note:
The government has fought releasing the list of the estimated 2,500 cases over three decades in which it performed the analysis…
Still, [one [...]
Another survey in bad statistical analysis is that of the life expectancy gap, the myth being that people in the U.S. simply don’t live as long as those in other parts of the world.
Now, I’m not sure what the spread is between the U.S. and the “forty countries” behind which it lags in this statistic, [...]