#Causation

Jessica Campbell

haesstudentdoc

We know that weight loss programs as public health initiatives are neither successful nor evidence based. #betterhealthukSo what does helpful public health policy look like? a summary of recommendations from

Allie Beth Stuckey

conservmillen

Read your piece, and I wish you would have consulted with a Christian pro-lifer before writing it, because there are some glaring misunderstandings. Here to help:1) "The Bible never directly

Gray "serial millennial myth debunker" Kimbrough

graykimbrough

Is it a mistake to be starting my second beer as I join this amazing webcast featuring Jean Twenge telling us about the evils of screen time for kids? I'm

Nuddering

NudderingNudnik

Long thread on my apparent double standard:I saw a reply to a tweet of mine (I now can’t find it) that asked me something like “why, given that you held

knife wife

ComradCapacitor

hard to overstate the impact the "zombie apocalypse" genre had on normalizing the idea of mowing down or driving through crowds of unarmed people as self-defense. remember how popular zombie

JohannesBorgen

jeuasommenulle

So I have been thinking about this a lot, especially with the French Covid stats, and wanted to investigate if something is happening with the testing pattern. Here are the

Courtney Milan 🦖

courtneymilan

This is really exciting for many reasons, in large part because (despite Asimov’s...many...issues) FOUNDATION was one of the sci fi series I truly geeked out on as a kid, and

Oliver

0liver_03

As I tweeted 2 days ago, this week I've collated local statistics, including by Constituency, Local Authority & Region. Included is:Pop. density, health, deprivation, age, gender, ethnicity, deaths due to

Dr. Elizabeth Sawin

bethsawin

With COP-25 just around the corner, we are entering the season for reports about how on track, (or how far off it) we are towards meeting global climate goals. I've

T. Greer

Scholars_Stage

Lord of the Flies is one of those novels that people remember wrong. People remember its central theme as "take away civilization, and we all turn into Hobbesian little monsters."But

alice ☾ * ⊹ .

mxnstrxlogy

some of the most common logical fallacies found in online debate & political discourse (a thread by a philosophy graduate) straw man — oversimplification/misrepresentation of an argument w/ the intention

Urban Sanyāsi📿

viigyaan

Mandukya Upnishad, the shortest of all the Upnishads and a part of Atharvaveda, comprises merely of 12 mantrās but is the most profound one.You read it and there is no

Charles

CharlesTroupin

Question to all my colleagues/friends/contacts who are scientists: have you ever been able to convince someone that they strongly believe is maybe not true? Example: if my dentist tells me

Samuel 👀

SamuelObe_

MENTAL MODELS: FallaciesFallacies based on illogical reasoning or unsound arguments are common. Spotting fallacies is a priceless skill.Here is a list of my top 15 fallacies (in no particular order)

💉💉 Dr. Trey is Vaccinated

Comparativist

I say again: the COVID19 hill I’m willing to die on is that population density is a classic “correlation = causation” logical fallacy. There’s no evidence for it.https://twitter.com/Comparativist/status/1248481752915431424 As a

🐊ZK For Tre🐊

ZKForTre

So, this is indeed an interesting finding (though the linked does not provide access to the entire manuscript, which was hard to find), but it should be taken alongside the