1. GRE and Philosophy
LSAT and Philosophy
2. The Need for a Control: Now can you know if an intervention is working if you don't compare it to something similar?
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/11/jpal-randomized-trials/
3. Isolating the cause (more need for a control).
4. Direction of causation
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/guns-and-death/
5. Causation and correlation:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24083600/
http://www.cdc.gov/sids/
6. Causation and correlation:
7. How are the results being reported? What is being measured? Direction of Causation?
Sampling of headlines: https://www.google.com/search?q=study+shows+effects+of+reading+classical+literature+&oq=study+shows+effects+of+reading+classical+literature+&aqs=chrome..69i57.27192j0j4&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=91&ie=UTF-8
The actual study: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6156/377.abstract
8. MMR vaccines
To know if vaccines cause autism, what would you need to know?
What about risk of anaphylaxis?
Post-Wakefeild study measles case in UK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/5081286.stm
In the US: http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/measles-outbreak-thanks-jenny/
9. Knee surgery NYT
Knee surgery WSJ
11. Novella on Acupunture
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