Blog

General:

• 02/03/2025: Roulette: doubling your bet each time you lose
• 21/02/2025: If we don’t reference properly, we end up standing in bullshit

Articles that annoyed me:

• 30/04/2025: “Drinking champagne could reduce risk of sudden cardiac arrest, study suggests” — Does it?
• 02/04/2025: “Lowering bad cholesterol may cut risk of dementia by 26%, study suggests” – may it?
• 22/10/2019: Is there really a rise in infant mortality in England, and is it driven by deprivation?
• 05/07/2019: Response to “An Open Letter to Cancer Research UK”
• 20/06/2019: “CCR5-∆32 is deleterious in the homozygous state in humans” – is it?
• 28/03/2019: My response to The campaign to make alcohol ‘the new tobacco’

My experiences of academia:

• 05/02/2018: My experience of conferences & training
• 13/01/2018: My PhD Thesis
• 06/01/2018: My PhD Viva

Research:

• 27/02/2020: Introduction to Stata: Course
• 19/08/2020: Albatross plots: Part 2
• 14/05/2020: Using Mendelian Randomization for Cost-Effectiveness Analyses
• 11/04/2020: Estimating an Odds Ratio from a GWAS only reporting the P value
• 11/10/2019: The Causal Effects of Health Conditions and Risk Factors on Social and Socioeconomic Outcomes: Mendelian Randomization in UK Biobank
• 29/10/2017: Albatross plots: Part 1
• 26/10/2017: Series on Evaluation of Scientific Publications
• 22/10/2017: Introduction: Questions about Stata, R and other things