#Causality

when compared to 2017-18 (a baddish, but far from crisis level flu season) 2019-20 shows a curve with a v different shape.it was extremely mild early and had almost no
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global health policy in 2020 has centered around NPI's (non-pharmaceutical interventions) like distancing, masks, school closuresthese have been sold as a way to stop infection as though this were science.this
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Good to see my new article out so quickly after final edits - on religious affiliation, attendance and belief and their associations with support for Brexit: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-4446.12793 Thread: /1 It
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NEJM with a well performed and convincing study associating the (extremely) rare clotting syndrome seen with the AZ vaccine with development of platelet factor 4 antibodies and a HIT-like syndrome.https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMo
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1/ Recently, I have been grappling with the question of what the role of cognitive neuroscience is supposed to be in understanding brain and cognition. What do we learn about
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New this morning: an ambitious data collection effort by @ProfEmilyOster and @AASAHQ is underway and early results aren't showing widespread outbreaks at in-person schools. @anya1anya and I report their findings
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Wondering why people are talking a lot about bail bonds? Here's a quick overview on how the bail bond system contributes to mass incarcerations that disproportionately impacts POC. AKA why/how
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BREAKING: huge Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine study of 96,000 patients at 671 hospitals found:Increased risk of DEATH by 33-45%Increased risk of ventricular arrhythmia by 2.3x to 5x. Not a trial but
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The Living Cat, The Dead Cat, and the Threads of Fate.Rest, rest in peace.My sweet love...... in peace.In the illusion that you have created,I have come to know love.#07threads #Umineko
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Just out in @JAMADerm, in one of the largest and most comprehensive dietary cohorts (Nutri-Net Sante cohort), milk (aOR 1.12), sugary beverage (aOR 1.18), and fatty & sugary product consumption
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Statistics, Machine Learning, Causal Inference, ...People coming from these different modeling cultures often have misunderstandings, and fight over whether logistic regression is "AI" or statistics.Why the big differences?1/n 2/
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This entire video by @BretWeinstein and @HeatherEHeying, from 0:0:0 to 1:40:47 was an argument for unity between liberals and conservatives but with conservatives always being on behind the wheel.And it
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1. The idea of ​​this thread is inspired by a fun model of the universe running away over the horizon, discussed by @StartsWithABang.https://twitter.com/StartsWithABang/status/1219515489627426816This thread answers the Ultimate Question
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(THREAD) New UN Panel of Expert report on N. Korea sanctions out now. Good: estimates of damage on NK's economy, recognition of humanitarian & social impact.Bad: incoherent conclusions, and a
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I found this 2013 post, where I proposed a set of quantitative skills every reporter should have to cover health care+public policy. These are roughly the skills I'd expect of
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This is a take. The thread is worth reading for the take. I expect it overstates things. Couple of problems.1) while vanna can drive moves, I expect it is more
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