May 2, 2026
Essay
New Fungal STI: Epidemiology and Transmission Risk
A source-aware look at a newly reported sexually transmitted fungal infection, including MSM networks, case evidence, transmission questions, and reporting limits.
Topic hub
Epidemiologic Methods
Readable epidemiology methods, causal inference, risk communication, evidence grading, replication, and statistical thinking.
Essays
21 linked piece(s)
This hub groups related writing so readers can move from one argument to the surrounding disease history, ecology, and evidence.
September 26, 2025
Essay
U.S. Life Expectancy Gap: What the Numbers Mean
A methods-first look at the U.S. life expectancy gap, why it sounds worse than it is, and what the counterfactuals imply.
September 18, 2025
Essay
Psychedelics for Anxiety: LSD Trial Evidence
What a new LSD trial does and does not show about psychedelics for anxiety, trial design, clinical endpoints, and evidence limits.
August 28, 2025
Essay
Founder Effects, Rare Disease, and Screening
Founder effects, population bottlenecks, rare disease risk, genetic ancestry, and why screening programs often follow history.
August 7, 2025
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Paper Mills and Scientific Fraud
How paper mills poison science, why fake studies spread, and what scientific publishing loses when quantity beats credibility.
July 31, 2025
Essay
Super Agers and Preventive Medicine
A response to Eric Topol’s super-agers argument and the medical system needed for aging, prevention, function, and long-term health.
July 17, 2025
Essay
Memetics After Memetics
Why the word memetics faded while viral ideas, imitation, information spread, and cultural transmission kept shaping public life.
July 10, 2025
Essay
Psilocybin vs Antidepressants: Meta-Analysis
A meta-analysis comparison of psilocybin and antidepressants for depression, with attention to study design, endpoints, and overstated certainty.
June 17, 2025
Essay
Apple Watch Accuracy and Fitness Trackers
What fitness trackers and Apple Watch data are good for, where wearable measurements fail, and how to interpret consumer health metrics.
May 15, 2025
Essay
Why I Write The Edge of Epidemiology
A statement of purpose for The Edge of Epidemiology: better science communication, disease history, public health, and evidence-aware writing.
May 12, 2025
Essay
Early Puberty, Calories, and Environmental Change
A public-health essay on early puberty, calories, growth, endocrine signals, obesity, and environmental explanations.
May 7, 2025
Essay
Due Diligence and Strong Opinions
Why strong opinions require due diligence, epistemic humility, evidence review, and a higher bar than vibes or tribal certainty.
May 5, 2025
Essay
Scout Mindset and Rethinking Certainty
A reflection on scout mindset, certainty, tribalism, belief formation, and why changing your mind is part of serious reasoning.
April 22, 2025
Essay
Learning Causal Inference as an Epidemiologist
A methods essay on learning causal inference, epidemiology training, counterfactual thinking, and why the framework can feel brain-breaking.
April 19, 2025
Essay
Asperger’s, Autism, and Diagnostic Reclassification
How diagnostic reclassification helped create the appearance of an autism epidemic, and what changing case definitions do to trend data.
April 14, 2025
Essay
Baseline Risk and Misleading Health Headlines
How health headlines can be technically true but misleading when baseline risk, relative risk, and absolute risk are left out.
April 11, 2025
Essay
Epidemiology’s Trust Crisis After COVID
Why epidemiology did not have a replication crisis in the usual sense, but still ended up with a public trust crisis after COVID.
April 7, 2025
Essay
Personality Heritability Is Probabilistic
Why personality heritability is probabilistic, not destiny, and how genetics, environment, and uncertainty shape psychological traits.
April 5, 2025
Essay
Every Food Is a Carcinogen If You Trust Bad Studies
Why weak nutrition studies can make almost any food look carcinogenic, and how confounding, measurement, and multiple testing mislead.
March 19, 2025
Essay
AI in Healthcare: Uses and Limits
A practical overview of AI in healthcare, current applications, clinical promise, implementation limits, and risks of overclaiming.
January 2, 2025
Essay
Oral GLP-1 Agonists for Obesity and Diabetes
A guide to oral GLP-1 agonists, obesity and type 2 diabetes treatment, clinical promise, delivery advantages, and evidence still needed.