Missing clinical trials

There are lots of clinical trials going missing. What, do you think, is the cause? Is it because they were inconclusive or negative? It is important to get to the bottom of this, because the clinical trial is the gold standard for scientific proof in medicine. If this...

Oil not yet peaked?

An interesting argument (based on statistics, unusually) that suggests that peak oil may not quite have arrived yet. Summary: the figure usually quoted for reserves is from the left hand side of a normal distribution (where there is a greater than 90% probability of...

Lehman Sheeple

Won´t be a Googlewhack, but I loved the cartoon showing the effect of Lehman brothers on everyone – "we´ve grown up with credit thrown at us; we´re not used to actually buying things".