#Misleading

Helen Pluckrose has returned to Hermit Mode

HPluckrose

He's not having a discussion. First he said we confuse current critical theories with the Frankfurt School & we showed we distinguish them clearly. Then he said we see the

Paul Musgrave

profmusgrave

1 like, 1 opinion about college teaching and learning, until I get bored 1. Professors can be more rigorous in teaching review and evaluation 2. Student evals are more like

약속¹³ | 𝗝𝗜𝗠𝗧𝗢𝗕𝗘𝗥

moonlitrm

How Jimin’s hardwork is getting wasted and neglected by his own companyA reposted thread:These are REAL issues so don’t comment before reading and understanding • artists get credit for their

🔥Margo Kingston💧

margokingston1

1. OK, Govts have known for a long time that a pandemic was inevitable and Bill Gates warned hard in 2015. Yet it seems as though there’s no Fed Govt

Dan Choi, MD

drdanchoi

THREAD - Why does surgeon, editor in chief @medpagetoday Dr Marty Makary @MartyMakary want a “surprise billing” fix HORRIBLE for patients that boosts insurer profits?? He wants benchmarking which will

सिद्धार्थ

das_seed

PHARMA, do it @Bioconlimited way! Register trial for sample size X, do OFF-LABEL w/ sample size Y≫ X, e.g., Y=150, X=30. SAVE LOT of MONEY. Stop clinical trial if OFF-LABEL

Michael Shellenberger

ShellenbergerMD

Why everything they say about the environment is wrong- Climate's not most important env. problem- No sixth mass extinction- Growth mostly good for people & nature- Alarmism hurts kids, poor

Seth Abramson

SethAbramson

(THREAD UPDATE) We're now at *60 significant lies* in just 21.5 minutes.I'm doing this to underscore to major media that *you must stop interviewing Trump* because *he cannot be effectively

David Chapman

Meaningness

A meandering on how to do science, creativity and execution, political censure, research universities, Silicon Valley, and stuff, prompted by @paulg's latest post: http://paulgraham.com/conformism.html .@paulg's 2004 essay &q

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

We wasted February and the failure wasn't just from the administration. Many in media, too, fueled the complacency. Why? Because we don't know how to think about complex systems—something we

Peter Apps

PeteApps

Amid a flurry of coverage of the misery being caused by the cladding scandal this week, I think it's worth explaining that this problem comes from 30 years of building

Adam Posen

AdamPosen

Fed Thread - What matters from what @federalreserve Chair Powell did and did not say today @KansasCityFed 1) The process of doing the review was as important as the results

Andreas Horn

andreashorn_

Taking the excellent article by Suzanne Haber, @yendikiand @SaadJbabdi in BioPsych as an opportunity for a thread:“The dMRI tractography streamlines labeled as the slMFB represent fibers of the Internal Capsule,

Gummi Bear

gummibear737

Asymptomatic Deep-DiveRead on, you’ll be surprisedThis NYT article revealed that high Ct PCR was identifying mostly non-infectious positives (trace viral RNA)The upside to supersensitive PCR is that it also tells

Cami Ryan, PhD

CamiDRyan

Disinformation and misinformation are terms that are often used interchangeably. And there's a difference. This thread will provide an overview of the literature and the terms. #disinformation Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article

Mr. Spock 🖖 (Commentary)

SpockResists

Why Are Christians So Easily Fooled by Conspiracy Theories?Especially adults who claim to be followers of Jesus and people of “The Truth.”During Barack Obama’s presidency, it was Christians claiming online