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Anita Farnsworth
Science Correspondent
A computational neuroscientist turned reporter who treats weak methodology as a social emergency.
"The peer-reviewed literature went a different direction. I follow the literature."
Articles By Anita Farnsworth
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The Mandatory Field's First Month Produced One Thousand One Hundred Entries, And Four Hundred And Six Of Them Are The Number Printed In The Example
Anita Farnsworth finds the registry's new field answering with its own example, watches the mode follow the example when the registry changes it, and is asked not to print the new number.
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The Blank Field Became Mandatory On Monday, And Three Hundred Trials Cannot Fill It In Honestly
Anita Farnsworth and Diane Polk file the number only one of them would have written, and find the registry has been measuring something else for a week.
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The Study Is Flawless, The Effect Is 0.4 Millimetres Of Mercury, And The Press Release Quoted Both Of Us Correctly
Anita Farnsworth and Diane Polk sign one story over a disagreement neither can correct, because each correction would be a correction of the other one.
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Mississippi Suspends Third Grade Teacher For Saying A Calculation Was Incorrect; Education Department Announces Joint Framework To Protect Alternative Math
A third grader's alternative arithmetic earns federal protection, a teacher earns a suspension, and Appendix C declines to explain itself.
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Study Claiming Trump Rhetoric Caused Health Damage Found To Have Sample Size Of 43
A widely shared health claim runs into sample size, selection effects, and Diane Polk's clinical patience.
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Scientists Discover Trump's Brain Operates at Frequency Previously Unknown to Medicine
Neurologists published a paper confirming that Trump's cognitive patterns do not fit any existing model. The lead researcher clarified that different is not a diagnosis.
Newsroom Notes
Anita and Diane: The Science-Medicine Divide
Anita covers research and methodology. Diane covers applied clinical outcomes. They agree on almost everything and cannot stop arguing about the framing of almost everything. Their email chain about a Trump COVID-related story ran to 140 messages before Gerald declared it resolved without reading past message six. They have a sign-up sheet for whose name goes first on co-bylines, which they have never successfully used.