Before May 14, 2020, Texas reporting of coronavirus test mixed results from two different kinds of tests: the PCR tests…
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Remdesivir Hopes
Remdesivir is an experimental antiviral drug made by the company Gilead. Designed to act against the RNA driven RNA polymerase…
Continue ReadingVisualizing NCAA GPA data
On 5 Sept 2018, the NCAA Research team tweeted out this chart : It reports the average core high school…
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I ignited a fierce debate a few months back by simply asking: “the higher you jump, the more force you…
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In an earlier posting on detecting the signs of pseudoscience, I quoted an article which mentions unfalsifiability as a property.…
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In a recent discussion with BJ Leroy of USA Volleyball, I encountered a paper by Bailey et al (2018) published…
Continue ReadingHow extinction shaped the Australian outback
The story in the Atlantic. When extinction is spoken about, it’s almost exclusively in terms of land based vertebrates, usually…
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BCAAs
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Doc Ricky (@doc.ric.ky) Most people obsessed with BCAAs don’t even know…
Continue ReadingVaccination Exemptions in the USA
Vaccination Exemptions in the USA The United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC) publishes a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report,…
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The mythical 300 jumps
This article has moved to a new location. Wilson, the sporting goods company, posted an ad on Instagram declaring DURING…
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