Articles

Cell Phones and Auto Accidents

New England Journal of Medicine: Association between Cellular-Telephone Calls and Motor Vehicle Collisions

USA Today: Drivers on the phone proven 4 times more likely to crash

Smoking

Cato Institute: Lies, Damned Likes, & 400,000 Smoking-Related Deaths

CDC: Perspectives in Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Smoking-Attributable Mortality and Years of Potential Life Lost -- United States, 1984

CDC: Cigarette Smoking-Attributable Mortality and Years of Potential Life Lost -- United States, 1990

Motorcycle Helmets

NY Times: The Case Against Helmets

CDC: Head Injuries Associated with Motorcycle Use -- Wisconsin, 1991

Fraudulent Statistics

NY Times: Charges of Research Fraud Arise at a Cornell AIDS Lab

NY Times: Scientist Faked Data Linking Cancer to Electromagnetic Fields, Probe Finds

NY Times: Editorial Observer: Why 'Racial Profiling' Will be Tough to Fight

LA Times: 3 Agree to Plead Guilty in False Drug Reports

Ethics in Human Medical Studies

NY Times: For Subjects in Haiti Study, Free AIDS Care Has a Price

Correlation and Causation

NY Times: Investing It; Duffers Need Not Apply

USA Today: Smokers, marriage don't always click

Duke University: Religious Attendance Linked to Lower Mortality in Elderly

Journal of the American Medical Association: Investor-Owned HMOs Deliver Lower Quality of Care than Not-For-Profit HMOs

Medical Studies

Journal of the American Medical Association: 1 To 2 Drinks a Day Protects Against Ischemic Stroke

Journal of the American Medical Association: Lovastatin Effective in Treating Adolescent Boys with Inherited High Cholesterol

New England Journal of Medicin: Final Report On The Aspirin Component Of The Ongoing Physicians' Health Study

Journal of the American Medical Association: Effectiveness of Live, Attenuated Intranasal Influenza Virus Vaccine in Healthy, Working Adults and the accompanying editorial. Also a USA Today article

The Effect of Race and Sex on Physicians' Recommendations for Cardiac Catheterization: New York Times article, New England Journal of Medicine article and followup

Lead exposure linked to bad teeth in children: Journal of the American Medical Association article and a USA Today article

Polling

Gallup: How Polls are Conducted

Roper: The Holocaust Poll Error: A Modern Cautionary Tale

Miscellaneous

USA Today: Internet gap widening Study: Revolution bypassing poor, minorities

Discover: The Median Isn't the Message

USA Today: Child abuse deaths vastly underreported

USA Today: Survey: Women feel more stress than men