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Florence Nightingale and Her Geeks Declare War on Death
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Seeing Can Be Seeing
An epidemiologist who should have known better, but was just a little too eager to tweet, and unwittingly spread misinformation to his 300,000 followers. A few days later, the right-wing pundit Ann Coulter tweeted a pair of graphs and a comment, For people under 60, coronavirus is less dangerous than the seasonal flu. But the graphs showed the precise opposite of Coulter's claim. And who looks at the tiny, tiny labels on the axes?
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