Dr. Seth Scholer is a Nashville pediatrician. Dear Gov. Bill Lee, I am writing this to express my concern about an over-reliance on anecdotal evidence by our state and national leaders. It is normal ...

There are few more damning responses to a new study or book or proposal than to say that it relies on “anecdotal” evidence — implying not just that the underlying idea lacks seriousness and ...

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In many interactions I come across on social media, often a clear tension exists between those who advocate their positions based strictly on science and those who advocate their positions based on ...

Here at the beginning of the Obama administration there is a shift in mindset unlike any I have ever seen. During my years in the U.S. government, the science agencies didn’t get significant attention ...

LIKE many Britons, your blogger spent two weeks in late August in Spain (just south of Barcelona). My knowledge of Spanish is about as rudimentary as Todd Akin's knowledge of human biology. But in ...

THE latest alarmist claim by economist Morgan Kelly of yet another wave of mass mortgage defaults appears to have been based on little more than "anecdotal evidence" and "estimates" published in the ...

Wendy Cope's last book, 2011's Family Values, quoted a critic on the cover: "Without the heart the jokes would not be so good." Sadly, Anecdotal Evidence shows the reverse is also true. In the most ...

In many interactions I come across on social media, often a clear tension exists between those who advocate their positions based strictly on science and those who advocate their positions based on ...