Controversy over the effectiveness of antidepressants such as Prozac, provoked by an article by Irving Kirsch and colleagues in 2008 in PLOS Medicine, shows no sign of declining.

Murders in London regularly make headlines. On a single day in July 2008, four people were murdered in separate incidents on a single day. But was this a statistical freak?

Straight Statistics collaborated with Sense about Science to produce a simple guide to numerical and statistical traps, Making Sense of Statistics.