This point ( confounding analysis being just a servant) needs to be put forcefully to students of pidemiology who can easily he led by their teachers to believe that the analytical methods of epidemiology are an end in themselves."
* Carol Buck,1975
Funniest thing in the odyssey movie is how Odysseus is portrayed as this remorseful physicist who unleashed the power of the atom and ( spoiler :Oppenheimer) for making the trojan horse.
Bad science in psychiatry usually arises from the creation of a global hypothesis which is poetically elaborated upon by its creator and his followers without any appeal to facts that would be capable of refuting it."
Carol Buck,1975
It is almost as if the progress in religious thought were centripetal, aimed toward decreasing a central core of ignorance, rather than centrifugal, aimed out into the limitless unknown."
* WARREN WEAVER
For fallibilists, however,
there are no restrictions on the origin of conjectural knowledge.
Conjectures are not to be judged by their mode of production,
but only by how vell they stand up to the test of experience."
* Causal inference, L J Rothman
Indeed, for a long time philosophers took care to be unintelligible, since otherwise everybody would have perceived that they had been unsuccessful in answering Hume."
* Russell
"Real world data" is an almost meaningless phrase. Our new @bmj_latest paper pushes the more helpful phrase "routinely collected data" and explains the many limitations of such for research purposes. https://t.co/VvsxLQvhfk #Statistics
@Hadeeth55 لا هذا كلام الشيطان ومخرقته ، العلماء لا يجمعون على باطل وهم ادرى منك بكل ماذكرت من أصول وفروع، فالالتزام بحكمهم هو النجاة ، ان تحسب انك عالم؟؟؟
Excellent in-depth debate going on about odds and risk ratios between Sander Greenland (@Lester_Domes) and Suhail Doi with input from Robert Ryley at https://t.co/kXWA7MekP8 #bbrcourse @vandy_biostat
@Haqiqatjou You still need the salafi pill bro.
The #salafi is just a title to to snob all #tradional#sunni islam.
It's the trojan horse that made it possible for IT and MIAW later to get the carte blanche and avoid any possible scrutiby from sunnis why not , after all they are not salafis
Why is causality harder to find than you think?
People see a correlation chart, or a time-series with an arrow marking a policy launch, and read it as causal evidence. But it almost never is.
New essay on the Transportation Problem in Causal Inference: https://t.co/F3AbqKlj4a
@Haqiqatjou No need to bring all these arguments, you know why?
Because stupid wahabis will sacrifice Islam to save their Lord ibn taymia!
I assure you