Comment of the Day: Phil Koop: Weekend Reading: Richard Feynman: Cargo Cult Science:
I also thought of this [Feynmann speech] when I read Gellman's rant. There is nothing wrong with [Gellman's] timeline per se, and he even correctly diagnoses the underlying problem, which is experimental design, not the technicalities of statistical analysis. But it lacks the perspective on display here.
