The long read
Ten years of this letter: what I got wrong
I went back through five hundred issues and marked the ones I would write differently. Here are the best of the worst.
October 12, 2026 · 8 min
Relative and absolute risk, on a walk by the water
Why the same number can sound large or small, worked out on the morning walk where I do most of my reading.
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Your questions: abstracts, preprints and my worst misread
You sent 140 questions. I answered nine, including the one about the paper I read far too quickly.