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Gray areas, I suppose. I never looked at them as lies, I looked at them as over-simplifications. All science is shrouded in discussions of probabilities and uncertainties, and trying to communicate these in their fullest can lead to a jumbled message. But during COVID, some things blurred the...

It sounds like most of your criticisms are of the media, and I am much more open to your points in that arena. It just seems to me that you are conflating media and the scientific community, and they are 2 completely different entities. My points were specific to the scientific community and...

Yeah, lots of examples of poor public health messaging during COVID. The PH experts didn't trust the public to deal with the nuanced truth, so they lied about their degree of certainty on these topics. That came back to bite them, and now they have lost trust. Those couple years will be studied...

Kennedy's point is wrong and nonsensical. If a study is funded by a company, that must be disclosed. Studies funded by bodies with vested interest, i.e. industry-funded research, are looked at with great skepticism in the scientific community, and with good reason; food and supplement companies...

What did people think of NW's makeshift football stadium on the lake? It looked pretty cool, even though it's capacity is on 12,000, and it was far from full. It would be a fun place to catch a game during an Iowa bye week. Only at NW...could you imagine any other B1G school choosing to play FB...

This portion of the tongue-in-cheek article sounds familiar... The medicalisation of free fall It is often said that doctors are interfering monsters obsessed with disease and power, who will not be satisfied until they control every aspect of our lives (Journal of Social Science, pick a...

Some things just don't lend themselves to RCTs. You have probably seen these, but if not, you might enjoy: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC300808/ https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094

How can anyone have confidence in this Iowa offense, yet? I think Iowa needs to hold ISU to less than a TD to win OR score on defense/special teams.

Dang it, I thought my link would work, but you probably need a UIowa account to access. Here is some other info that is accessible: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6768751/ And here is the meta-analysis, hopefully accessible: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32309885/

It is not like no one has looked for this risk, or they are trying to hide something: https://www-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.proxy.lib.uiowa.edu/pmc/articles/PMC7169657/ That is a meta-analysis of 87 studies totalling over 13 million children.

I love spurious correlations. I think they had one about the relationship between Danish cheese consumption and prevalence of death by bedsheet entanglement.

I think my wish list would be... A floor-spacing 4 or 5 (I like Smith as an offensive outlet when everything else gets bogged down, but she kind of exists outside of the offense more so than within; Boston can play 4 or 5, and she brings so much from a defensive/passing/leadership standpoint...

Of course, the 5 picks might have had something to do with that score.

I will submit this as a better, post-COVID half of offensive football (pick a half): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Saczy8yqlMg

The WNBA record for 25 pt, 10 asst games is 5 (Ionescu). Clark has 4 so far this year.

I noticed that, too. I think he dropped it just past the goal line, not short, but it was close. It boggles my mind that players still do this even though we have seen so many examples of it going wrong.

Things I did like... It looked like we came out running RPO effectively in the 2nd, getting Lachey, Vander Zee, and Gill behind crashing defenders with quick slants. KJ is a beast, and I think he will only get better with more carries. And the guys who will spell him are no slouches. All 3...

That first half triggered too much PTSD, I am going to skip the optimism for now. I have to see it for multiple games against decent teams before I believe this is anything different from what we have seen the last 3 years. But there is a glimmer of hope, and that is enough for now.

LeVar woods was really up in K. Johnson's face following the opening kickoff of the 2nd half. I wasn't sure what was going on there (the kick sailed over Johnson's head, into the endzone), but with this news, I wonder if he was just trying to light a fire and get KJ pumped to be the workhorse...

Watching the Olympics gave me a theory as to why the WNBA is so rough. Almost all of these players play internationally, and that physicality is just part and parcel of the international game. It makes sense that it carries over to the WNBA. The NBA made a concerted effort to enforce that...