VINAY PRASAD MD MPH AUG 10, 2026 For all the excitement about finding and detecting misinformation, it’s amazing the media does not recognize that many statistics it routinely touts are essentially that. Closing USAID will cost 14-20 million lives Had red states adopted covid vaccines at the rate of blue states, we would have saved 200,000 lives Vaccine mandates saved 447,202 lives. These... Read more
Archive for the ‘Math/Statistics’ Category
C&C. ITS NOT ABOUT THE BURRITO. Dems Support GOP in MI.
August 8 | Posted by mrossol | Childers, Democrat Party, Hillary Clinton, Incentives, Math/Statistics, Voting IssuesJEFF CHILDERSAUG 8 Make sure you fact-check the MSM. The Dems Know They are in Trouble. GOP better figure out how to ‘blame’ the Dems for Zoomers’ pain- that is where the blame belongs. But the GOP is not communicating this very well. mrossol 🌍🇺🇸 ESSENTIAL NEWS AND COMMENTARY 🇺🇸🌍 🔥🔥🔥 Due to a late-Friday-night off-news-cycle Senate vote, it’s now official: President... Read more
C&C. THE GREAT UNWINDING.
July 16 | Posted by mrossol | Childers, Critical Thinking, DEI, Education, Math/Statistics, Politically correct, StupidityJEFF CHILDERS JUL 16, 2026 Anyone with a brain could see that lowering standards, eliminating standard testing, grade inflation and the like were a very STUPID idea. But the “woke Left” doesn’t seem to have a brain. mrossol ⛑️ C&C ARMY BRIEFING ⛑️ Had I known that forcing myself to compile a long list of Trump 2.0 achievements would generate a top-ten... Read more
Did the CDC improperly block a study showing the COVID vaccines were effective?
May 7 | Posted by mrossol | CDC NIH, Math/Statistics, Medicine, VaccineSTEVE KIRSCH MAY 7, 2026Steve Kirsch’s Newletter Executive summary CDC acting director Jay Bhattacharya delayed and then blocked a COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness paper from appearing in the agency’s flagship scientific journal, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). The NY Times had a field day with the story (here and here). After studying the paper and reading the numerous articles written by people on both sides of the issue (such as the MD Reports analysis... Read more
Bravery (and Humility) is Needed to do Proper Medical Science
May 4 | Posted by mrossol | Math/Statistics, Medicine, Transparency[non]JOHN MANDROLA MAY 4, 2026 I am not an orthopedic surgeon. Maybe you aren’t one either. But as a sports enthusiast, I’ve had acute joint pain of one sort or another. Maybe you’ve been told something is torn. A torn meniscus, for instance. I don’t know what a meniscus is, but it being torn does not sound good. It’s like “bone-on-bone.”... Read more
THE NUMBER THEY NEVER PUT IN THE HEADLINE
May 1 | Posted by mrossol | CDC NIH, Critical Thinking, Math/Statistics, MedicineHow to read any health study — and why the most important finding is almost never the one being reported Source: THE NUMBER THEY NEVER PUT IN THE HEADLINE JAMES LYONS-WEILER, PHDMAY 1, 2026 We’ve seen it a thousand times. When pharma decides it wants to open a new market, it makes mountains out of molehills on efficacy. When that market is... Read more
