Someone should write a dystopian sci-fi story about a legislator who gets sent to prison for failing to vote for a health policy that regressions show would reduce mortality rates, only to be exonerated and made a hero when a larger-sample regression finds the policy was harmful.
The story ends with the public health researchers who ran the original regression getting thrown in prison themselves, for promoting an analysis that would literally murder millions, according to political scientists' latest model of how statistical analyses affect policy.
The title of the story will be: "WHO WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE??"
