Gelman is a very interesting statistician and writer on statistical reasoning, and this article is well worth a read. Gelman is certainly correct that just beca

Gelman is a very interesting statistician and writer on statistical reasoning, and this article is well worth a read. Gelman is certainly correct that just because something is published in a peer-reviewed journal, we shouldn't necessarily think that it is a true description of the world. Journals are all hungry for content ("publish or perish" applies to journals too), and journal editors and reviewers are often surprisingly poorly acquainted with how to spot errors in statistical reasoning.