Because this treatment causes thyroid activity to decline, you'll likely need treatment later to supply your body with normal amounts of thyroid hormones.

CNN: Graves' disease

Information when and where you need it is the byproduct of processed data models, running circles around your disparate activity, curated and connected to paint a bigger picture.

FORBES: Where's the Business in the Curation Nation?

In order to conduct the sort of statistical analysis Silver faults Noonan's column for lacking, you'd need a representative database of persons who are politically active and a method of coding their political activity by ideology and intensity.

WSJ: Best of the Web Today: The Dog Whistler