A Classroom Experiment: The Day Silicon Handed Me the Nobel
Sequel to the 'Lie to the Professor' experiment. I challenged the silicon colossi with absurd correlations. Not one spotted the nonsense—revealing an algorithmic 'horror vacui' that poses a threat to scientific integrity.
12 December 2025
Classroom Experiment: Can Students Fool a Biostatistician? A Data Fabrication Contest
I asked my residents to invent hemoglobin data in 60 seconds. I used six forensic techniques to catch them. Spoiler: Statistics always wins.
10 December 2025
How to Train and Validate Clinical Prediction Models: Step-by-Step Guide for Healthcare Professionals
Practical Guide with R for Developing Robust Predictive Models in Clinical Settings
22 October 2025
Writing Science or Rewriting Reality?
IMRaD is the publication standard, but it need not dictate the writing process. This post argues for a 'reverse' writing strategy—from findings back to the introduction—as a method to enhance honesty and clarity, distinguishing it from HARKing and aligning narrative with genuine scientific discovery.
4 October 2025
An Intuitive Dive into LLM Architecture
By Maicel Monzon Are LLMs actually thinking, or are they simply creating a magnificent illusion of reasoning? From ChatGPT to Gemini, these tools often seem human, but their “intelligence” is born from an ocean of data and a massive statistical architecture.
6 April 2025
The Pitfalls of Correlation Disguised as Causation
Curious examples, short rigor notes, and a practical checklist to avoid confusing correlation with causation in scientific research.
24 February 2025