Archive - Wilde Truth

Bear Is Back (Again)

Celebrating a reunion and focusing on what matters in science as in life

Aug 11 •

Pauses make better worlds possible

Aug 5 •

July 2025

Birth Control, Lies, and Daddy Issues

A new memoir hawks as shady a story as the spin science it acknowledges

Jul 10 •

Bad Proxies Are Bad

Friends don't let friends measure what's easy instead of what matters -- but what matters is open to interpretation.

Jul 2 •

June 2025

You Say Tomato, I Say Bayesian Search

A plural, contested concept. A few different ways to model iterated screening. A conceptual question about signal detection problems.

Jun 26 •

The Bear, the Biases, and the Bodies

Yet another post on epistemic humility

Jun 23 •

We Didn't Start the Bias (The Politics of Evaluating Mass Screenings)

Generalists, guilds, and the danger of doing good science

Jun 18 •

Notes from the Cutting Room Floor

Two discarded Covid vaccination essays, one last shot

Jun 13 •

Recent health and methods readings

Jun 11 •

My Doctor Didn't Recommend That Vaccine

But I got it anyway

Jun 3 •

May 2025

When Experts Polarize: Offit, RFK Jr., and the CDC's Covid Vaccine Shift

Epistemic humility in an age of scientific polarization

May 30 •

Miracle or Mirage? A Recent Paper Hypes Machine Learning in Mammography

On typically inflated accuracy improvement claims, persistent uncertainty, and what's missing in the practice of informed consent

May 29 •

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