The "law" of averages and God playing dice In the future, government AI might decide your odds of criminality, or requirements for injection, based upon any number of frequentist statistical models. I. The Null Hypothesis Ritual. The American Statistical Association...
Not a bad job by AI-imagebot given my lengthy prompt I. A PostScript on Medical Diagnosticism and Math-Mal.1 My favorite story that encapsulates what’s wrong with modern medical diagnosticism comes from a friend’s childhood, circa the mid-1960s. Evidently the family...
Modern Medical Mathematical Malpractice AI Prompt: Doctors looking confused staring at a chalkboard with numbers on it What’s an Order of Magnitude Between Friends? Time to discuss an insidious and systemic problem through the lens of two case studies. Along the way,...
What we believe in any given culture, small or large – our collective values – what we revere, is exactly what we will propagate and get.
Merriam Webster online has the simple definition for culture as “the beliefs, customs, arts, etc., of a particular society, group, place, or time.”
It’s business as usual for me and mine.
In Part 1, I ended with Learned Hand’s famous cost-benefit formulation in the Law of Negligence.
These kinds of questions around the coronavirus are at the heart of any serious course on jurisprudence….
I never really knew anything about cancer.
A blog post I wrote on election night 2016. I’m likely preaching to the choir on some of this, but thought it worth sharing. Even better, however, is that it now looks prescient for 2020, so I’ve slightly re-purposed it for that, too.
When my boss first returned from China, Shanghai was what he talked about most.
The most interesting exchange of the night occurred in the bathroom….
I feel compelled to offer a kind of “after action report” or lessons learned section on the AVIP.
When Court ended that day, I knew that either we got a stay by the next morning or David Ponder and Jason Stonewall would be going to jail.
Indeed, any detailed historical look at DoD and VA actions in the aftermath of large batches of veterans returning home and filing claims, reveals a shocking pattern.
At Dulles, I left without saying more than a brief goodbye.
There are entire degrees to be obtained in studying and arguing about theories of warfare, what constitutes sufficient causus belli, and under what circumstances nuclear and/or total warfare might even be considered.
Given how flawed the program has been from its inception – and all of the documents involved are public records, most of which were created by the U.S. government itself – the most salient question becomes ‘why?’
I took in the room with a glance. There were two groups of people – ours and theirs.
Coincidentally, in the first week of October 2000, the House Committee on Government Reform was holding another hearing on the anthrax vaccine program.
These studies received little to no attention in the U.S.
The impact of the anthrax program on the Armed Services was substantial.
From the beginning I’ve had the sense that they have mischarged the offense, perhaps intentionally.
In December of 1997, the anthrax vaccine manufacturer was shut down and could not manufacture anything related to the AVA.
I sent out the judge’s ruling in Corporal Stonewall’s case to a list of people the same night the judge issued it. I was in despair. Now what would I do?