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The back pages Feedback Picking a winner An epidemiologist walks into a casino – what happens next? Feedback is tempted to say he wins the black spot, or some other top-quality pun, but our editor is giving us a long, hard stare, so we had better get on with it. Epidemiologist and mathematician Adam Kucharski was recently bemused to learn that the internet is making up stories about him. Two posts on X, the site formerly known as Twitter, told the same tale: that he had walked into a casino for the first time in his life and won “500K”. The currency wasn’t specified in one instance, while in another, it was US dollars. …
摘自《新科学家》(New Scientist)第271卷 第3611期 · 2026年9月5日。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。