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Mar 21, 2020

How much ‘normal’ risk does Covid represent?

An article by Nick Triggle on BBC Online raises the issue…

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David Spiegelhalter in WintonCentre

Aug 23, 2018

The risks of alcohol (again)

A recent paper published by the Lancet demonstrating the global impact of alcohol consumption was a huge exercise from the Gates Foundation-funded Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in Seattle. They built a large and complex statistical model from a vast range of…

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David Spiegelhalter in WintonCentre

Jun 12, 2020

What have been the fatal risks of Covid, particularly to children and younger adults?

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David Spiegelhalter in WintonCentre

Apr 2, 2018

Coffee and cancer: what Starbucks might have argued

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David Spiegelhalter in WintonCentre

May 13, 2020

What are the risks of COVID? And what is meant by ‘the risks of COVID’?

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David Spiegelhalter in WintonCentre

Jan 22, 2017

How dangerous is burnt toast?

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) today launched its Go for Gold campaign, encouraging us not to burn our roast or fried vegetables and keep our oven chips at a nice golden colour. The idea is to reduce people’s intake of acrylamide, a chemical that is “created when many foods…

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David Spiegelhalter in WintonCentre

Apr 11, 2020

Does Covid raise everyone’s relative risk of dying by a similar amount? More evidence.

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David Spiegelhalter in WintonCentre

Mar 2, 2020

Communication about Coronavirus

There’s been some dire headlines about the current outbreak , such as ‘Virus Panic’ from the Daily…

David Spiegelhalter in WintonCentre

Jan 25, 2020

Andromeda and ‘appalling science’: a response to Hardwicke and Ioannidis

In March this year I was one of the 850+ signatories supporting the article in Nature calling for the idea of ‘statistical significance’ to be retired. Soon after publication, all these signatories…

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David Spiegelhalter in WintonCentre

Feb 20, 2017

Does air pollution kill 40,000 people each year in the UK?

Air pollution is news. The Daily Mail claims that Air pollution is ‘killing 40,000 a year in the UK’ Greenpeace says 40,000 lives were cut short by air pollution in the U.K., while the Guardian reports Air pollution crisis…

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