Edit: Gelman has posted 3 articles on this topic in the past 2 days. (The guy is prolific! He also publishes about 1 paper per month over his decades long career)

Tangents:

What is all this?

> The beauty-and-sex-ratio research, the ovulation-and-voting research, embodied cognition, himmicanes, ESP, air rage, Bible Code, the celebrated work of Andrew Wakefield, the Evilicious guy, the gremlins dude—all peer-reviewed.