Trevor Butterworth
Freelance Journalist
- Business and Finance, Opinion and Editorial
- Brooklyn, New York
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Contributor Newsweek/Daily Beast, FT, WSJ, Forbes.com; Editor-at-large stats.org. Irish with a dash of Brit.
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RT @reichlab: The importance of reproducible research in the news this week, courtesy of #UMass researchers t.co/LPwZDzhTxq
Forget Excel: This Was Reinhart and Rogoff's Biggest Mistake
theatlantic.com — Correlation is not causation For an economist, the five most terrifying words in the English language are: I can't replicate your results. But for economists Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff of Harvard, there are seven even more terrifying ones: I think you made an Excel error. Listen, mistakes happen.
I wrote about how Landrigan manipulated the statistics to claim child cancer increased @NetReturn: @AmChemistry
Vom Saal started the BPA controversy, his work has been dismissed by every regulatory agency RT @NetReturn: @AmChemistry
Shanna Swan, for instance, is responsible for the entire federal court system tightening rules of evidence RT @NetReturn: @AmChemistry
YEP RT @NetReturn: @AmChemistry I went to this event last week & they made a good case: t.co/qMFIBBVMQO are they junk scientists?
We KNOW the internal dose of active BPA. We KNOW it's too low to do anything RT @NetReturn: @AmChemistry I
There is a consensus on the science. All the regulatory studies have found zip. FDA, CDC, EPA, EFSA etc RT @NetReturn: @AmChemistry
I believe in scientific rigor. When the media report the FULL story on BPA, label away. RT @NetReturn: @AmChemistry
And by the way - BPA is there to prevent food spoilage, botulism. A real toxin RT @NetReturn: @AmChemistry
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