I think the correct word is 'extrapolation'. (View Post)

Oh come on: being Prime Minister of the UK is much better. Firstly, you can keep doing it forever. There's no pesky constitution banning your number of terms. Secondly, you don't have to release your… (View Post)

Well, if there is a link, it's a very small one. The massive Swedish study had autism rates for kids whose parents who took paracetamol to be 1.3%, against 1.2% for those who didn't. And furthermore,… (View Post)

Harris lost because Americans became poorer under Biden*. (There were other smaller contributory factors of course. I think trans played a small role, and what I would describe broadly as 'affirmativ… (View Post)

To be fair, the evidence for smoking and lung cancer (and other forms of death) was absolutely overwhelming. The problem with noting correlations on their own is that you will often miss the true iss… (View Post)