#Preprints

Dan Davies

dsquareddigest

Controversial opinion! Reading scientific papers (particularly preprints where you cannot be sure that there are not major errors) is a demanding and tedious way of getting partial information. it's absolutely

Ben CatchYourCough Goldacre

bengoldacre

Here's a post on the value and hazards of scientific preprints during Covid, from Science Media Centre. https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/what-should-press-officers-advise-on-preprints-during-a-pandemic/I HAVE THOUGHTS. brief thread...

Bethany Brookshire

BeeBrookshire

You might be seeing the word 'pre-print' in the media a lot lately, as people report on COVID-19 preprints Here is what a pre-print IS.https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2020/04/strong-caveats-are-lacking-as-news-stories-trumpet-preliminary-cov

Daniel Engber

danengber

oh, for crying out loudAnother op-ed in the New York Times that worries over the "the rapid-fire world of preprints, especially amid a pandemic when there are strong forces aligned

Cailin O'Connor

cailinmeister

New Paper! We find that subjects think you are less at risk of COVID infection when engaged in morally good actions, and more likely to catch COVID while doing morally

Amy C🍩🍩pes

coopesdetat

So let me get this straight. Multiple papers published in reputable journals, as well as a number of preprints, have all but dismissed the lab escape theory as vanishingly unlikely,

Dan Hirschman

asociologist

Very excited to share this new publication! @prabhbob, @ellenberrey, and I find that less selective colleges enroll *fewer* Black students in years they consider race in admissions, the opposite of

Lilian Edwards

lilianedwards

Matt Hancock has announced the UK is building its own symptom and contact tracing app https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52263244. Promised privacy safeguards are essential not just for individual rights but also for uptake

Walid Gellad, MD MPH

walidgellad

We have a real problem now in science if preprints go directly to AP feeds in a matter of hours. That just should not happen. There could be big holes

Long Covid Kids 🧡💙🧡 #LongCovidKids #FBLC

LongCovidKids

One Year On. Our scrapbook.Kids do get #COVID19 Kids can be #Asymptomatic or #Atypical.Kids can have a mild infection, or get #PIMSKids can get #LongCovid 2000 kids NOT yet better.

Covid19Crusher

Covid19Crusher

Remember the extraordinary, sudden eradication of Covid severity in Mexico City following the distribution of medical kits including ivermectin to all outpatients testing positive since December 2020?https://datos.cdmx.gob.mx/dataset/actas-

Dr Max Liboiron

MaxLiboiron

And here's the launch! I'm writing to you from St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, the traditional homelands of the Beothuk. The province is also the homelands of the Mi’kmaw, Innu,

Jodi Schneider

jschneider

"Doing science in times of crisis: #Sciencestudies perspectives on COVID-19" webinar First talk starting now.Not being recorded - so join anytime in the next 3 hours to discuss #covid_science_studiesAgenda (times

David Metcalf

dlmetcalf

Oh FFS. At baseline, the group given HCQ in that study, relative to "no HCQ" control, already *started* with 3x the no. of cases w/ low O2 sats, 50% more

Benjamin Braun

BJMbraun

What is asset manager capitalism? (How) does index fund dominance change the political economy of corporate governance? This has taken me forever. It's a first working paper, focused on the

Lumos Biotech

lumosbio

THREAD from the new #bradykinin research (pre-print) from :"We propose that the severity of the disease and many deaths are due to a local vascular problem due to activation of