So. It turns out that there is a statistical angle to the recent report of neutrinos travelling faster than light, since it’s the assessment of uncertainty in the travel time and distance that is really at issue. For a nice summary of the measurement issues from a card-carrying physicist and popular science writer, see Chad Orzel’s blog.
Here is an interesting blog post on the heated debate about the link between soda consumption and obesity in the US.
Every time I watch a Mythbusters experiment I wonder about replication. They (almost) never replicate any of their experiments under the same conditions, or if they do, they do not tell the viewer how many times. It certainly would be nice to have some of the data from their experiments.
Here’s a link to a physics teacher who is thinking some of the same things.