#Evidence

Ben Kentish LBC

BenKentish

Two new studies have just been published on how face coverings can help stop the spread of Covid-19. They are fascinating, and raise serious questions about UK government policy on

J.B. Handley

jb_handley

1/ I decide to read the below article in the WaPo about the CDC's new guidance. WaPo asserts in the article that there is "strong evidence on the effectiveness of

Megan Tompkins-Stange

tompkinsstange

Rating nonprofits, especially small charities, based on their “bang for the buck”, or cost-effectiveness per dollar spent vs. their “competitors,” is very shortsighted.But it’s more than that. It’s destructive. 1/https://nyti.ms/2O9LnKS

Christabel Cooper

ChristabelCoops

Grateful to the @EveningStandard for encapsulating the right-wing case against further Covid restrictions in one neat paragraph.But oh deary, deary me. What a paragraph.The right seem to think of Covid

TIMES NOW

TimesNow

#Breaking | 'Umar Khalid asked people to rope in Bangladeshi & Rohingya immigrants for anti-CAA stir'. Khalid knew that the majority of Indian Muslims won't subscribe to Imam's definition of

Mateusz Fafinski

Calthalas

Why do historians use terms like "the Middle Ages" or "the Renaissance" but get cross about it all the time? And keep forbidding things like "the Dark Ages"? Isn't it

Ben Nimmo

benimmo

This seems a good moment to highlight the importance of keeping perspective and sticking to the evidence. A few thoughts on "bot networks" in general, and Chinese info ops in

Dr Annie Hickox

dranniehickox

If you (or someone you know) are being repeatedly followed/harassed/libelled behind a block on twitter or other SM platform, the behaviour is known as ‘twitter stalking’. This is a form

Jack Posobiec

JackPosobiec

BREAKING: New @AJC video appears to show Ahmaud Arbery entering new house on McMichael’s street, running out after spotted by neighbor Video continues: Police arrive after 911 call This is

The Sharing Scientist

ScienceShared

A pretty great thread summarising medical/public health interventions which sounded logical and like the obvious thing to do, but RCTs showed they weren't.Nice @lancet article on screening linked here also.And

klarameyer

KlaraCLST6

In his lecture for the ASCSA, “Ötzi and Modern Mummy Research” (a), Albert Zink discusses the discovery of 5300-year-old Tyrolean Iceman, Ötzi. He assesses the findings from this remarkably well-preserved

Deepak Saini

futuristicstock

#BIOLOGICS #BIOSIMILARS Awareness Series PART-2/n1/n Generic Drug Vs #biosimilar#Generic drugs for small molecules have a relatively simple chemical structure that can be reproduced or processed so that the chemical itself

ria !

hesgoldencheri

why harry styles is unique, based on factual evidence. a thread: as some of us may know, harry styles has 4 nipples. according to various studies conducted over many years,

Angel Mom Virginia Krieger

c0lettea

The role of a judge is to interpret law in cases presented by the prosecutor. It is NOT the role of a judge to decide which cases should or should

Colin J. Carlson, Ph.D.

wormmaps

If you're wondering how you remove the scientific evidence base from a policy discussion, and turn it into narrative, here's a nice template in just four sentences from today's Economist

Kaya Comer-Schwartz

KayaJunction

This article only scratches the surface of the grave concerns held about this year’s results and the appeals process set out by the Government 1/7https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1292973192416571392 As seen in Scotland recently,