If I claim I can predict when you will die, you will laugh at me If I claim I can measure your "true biological age", perhaps you won't Being able to recognize that the latter is just the former is useful, especially for guiding how to evaluate the claim. Measures of association aren't sufficient

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If anybody reading this is a working scientist who would be interested to learn about and co-develop a public philosophy of science course for scientists, dm me, thanks! Shares appreciated!

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Many papers I see: A global problem Search for modifiable "risk factors" A cohort study sorry I mean real-world data "Multivariate" regression Some associations Can't say cause Residual confounding Policy must change in ways having nothing to do with our findings More research is needed

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They hounded Aaron Swartz to death for downloading papers from jstor but society is now supposed to just accept mass theft because this thing can write that TPS report *for* you. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_S...

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