The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacies

Bob Marks and Gary Smith offer a range of startling examples of how the pressure to publish drives a lack of rigor — and sometimes honesty — in analyzing and presenting experimental data. The result is a never ending parade of headlines in health and medicine that are unwarranted and often reversed or impossible to replicate. Shownotes 01:00 | Data mining and the origin of the term “Texas Sharpshooter Fallacies” 02:00 | Fallacy #1: Multiplying targets 03:00 | Drinking coffee and pancreatic cancer 04:25 | The profusion of health studies and claims 06:07 | Fallacy #2: Drawing the target after Read More ›