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Ask the authors: “Plain words, easily understood”

The following is a series of questions prompted by the publication of Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone’s “The Free Speech Century” (Oxford University Press, 2019). As Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously suggested in 1919 in Schenck v. United … Continue reading

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What I wish judges understood about statistics

From xkcd. Understanding this would especially help in the DC Circuit, where the judges seem to think that the FDA can't ban claims that "X might help with prostate health" when there's one well-conducted study supporting the claim and fifteen … Continue reading

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