#Causation

François Benoux

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(1) THREAD#QuestionDuJour What are the most serious historical fallacies in western academic textbooks?It's a topic we can't avoid any more. Let's start.... (2) Among the most serious historical fallacies:A. Whig

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motse7en_

An analysis of the data collected from this tweet I made: A thread!https://twitter.com/motse7en_/status/1370589109987708934?s=20 Im first gonna explain what the individual letters in the personality types mean:First category: where you focu

John O'Nolan 🏴‍☠️

JohnONolan

Here's a non-corona thread for you about how last month I got all of http://Ghost.org kicked off Google and our entire domain no longer appeared for a single search result.

Ulgen

ulgenCLST6

#CLST6 #ArchMethodsFor today's #CYO2, I listened to episode 26 of The Arch&Ant podcast titled "How do geneticists study complex traits in humans? How do ancestry tests work?". The guest of

Sarah 🍓

SarahJ_Berry

This week, I asked folks to name an idea in urbanism that they wish got more attention. One caught my eye more than any other: induced demand. It’s got perhaps

Alexander Lanoszka

ALanoszka

Good thread, but for me the interesting question is not whether arms races lead to war (too many problems with reverse causation), but how they shape state's choices over armaments

Mary Murphy

mcmpsych

New paper out today @PNASNews. We explored the network structure, cultural frames, and women’s participation in the movement to improve science—specifically in Open Science and Reproducibility across all sciences from

Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

He wants to pretend like everything is normal. His solution to the virus is to pretend like there's no problem.He has the idea that if the economy is strong, he'll

Julia Serano

JuliaSerano

THREAD: just published my latest (& perhaps last) debunking #autogynephilia essay: "Autogynephilia, Ad Hoc Hypotheses, and Handwaving." feel free to share it & give it lots of "claps" (up to

Randy Nesse

RandyNesse

A recent news article in @ScienceMagazine, “Rethinking #anorexia: Biology may be more important than culture,” illustrates the human tendency to stay committed to a simple theory despite contrary evidence, even

Jon Galloway

jongalloway

I've had some DMs along the lines of "Hey, I can't condone the actions of either side."So let's talk about that. First, this completely ignores causation. This isn't an ongoing

Youyang Gu

youyanggu

There's been increasing discussion about the role of immunity vs behavior vs interventions in the spread of COVID-19. Louisiana is a good case study because it's the only state that

The Passenger

gordonschuecker

A thread on energy return on energy invested (EROI), why it is important and how it looks like for fossil fuels vs renewables.Without energy, there is no economy or as

David Finsterwalder

DFinsterwalder

Something that pisses me off is how pseudo-sceptical Vitamin D is treated. Take for example this @thetimes article. They write: There is no evidence that it does prevent Covid. This

Jordan Gauthier

drjgauthier

Sunday thoughts:During our training we physicians learn by rote hundreds to thousands of ultra-rare diagnoses with their associated clinical and biological signs. Comparatively, we spend limited time learning how to

Kathleen Stock

Docstockk

An angry thread directed towards North American "progressive" academic philosophers.This influential psychologist, Diane Ehrensaft, works with children. She thinks gender identity is expressed pre-verbally. There's no good evi