Various updates

Various updates about life from my perspective.

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More on Relative vs. Absolute Risk and Statins

This is largely stimulated by a blog post by Junkfood Science from today.

I’ve talked about the dangers of interpreting relative risk before. Even if the actual change in risk is 0.3 (between 99.5% and 99.8%), the relative risk can be 150%, scare the crap out of you and get you to take a foolish [...]