A week ago, a new study published in Frontiers Physiology titled, “Effectiveness of Grounded Sleeping on Recovery After Intensive Eccentric Muscle Loading” investigated the effects of grounding on recovery in athletes.

People don’t want to waste their time on things that don’t work. To avoid wasting time, many may want to assess the scientific evidence. They may first look at the basic science (if it can be studied at such a level) and ask, “does this thing have a clear molecular/biological mechanism,” or they may ask, “does it have a theoretical foundation?

Erich Lehmann’s last book, which was published after his death, is on the history of classical statistics and its creators. Specifically, how his mentor Jerzy Neyman and his adversary Ronald Fisher helped lay the foundations for the methods that are used today in several fields.

It’s finally here. The results of the REDUCE-IT trial were presented today at the American Heart Association conference and the paper is also up on The New England Journal of Medicine.

The P-value doesn’t have many fans. There are those who don’t understand it, often treating it as a measure it’s not, whether that’s a posterior probability, the probability of getting results due to chance alone, or some other bizarre/incorrect interpretation.