Making Trends out of Nothing At All

As Tim Noah points out, what’s particularly strange about the bizarre NYT article claiming that blogging was turning into a job so stress-inducing it could kill you is that the author actually concedes within the text that these are not only random anecdotes but even with respect to these anecdotes there’s no reason to believe that there was a significant causal relationship between the job and the death. How this could still have ended up a Page One story I certainly can’t tell you.