#Skepticism

Jonathan Fuller

JonathanJFuller

This response by @mlipsitch to my @BostonReview #COVID19 piece (https://bostonreview.net/science-nature/jonathan-fuller-models-v-evidence) provides a fascinating (and philosophical) look inside epidemiological thinking at a time when understanding th

Greg

greg_scott84

CORRUPT & BROKEN1) This talk of the Democratic Party pushing the idea of mail-in ballots in the coming 2020 US election due to the Covid-19 pandemic is fairly concerning. 2)

Jesse Case

jessecase

THREAD (uh oh)A few nights ago I tweeted about the vaccine and went viral (the irony!). I've since received quite a bit of hate mail, all along the lines of

Nils Redeker

niredeker

Today @Lagarde takes over at the ECB. Amongst her challenges: dealing with a German public deeply sceptical of ECB policies. In a new paper @LHaffert, @tobirommel and I study the

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#CrashLandingOnYou #Cloy A paragliding mishap drops a South Korean heiress in North Korea - and into the life of an army officer, who decides he will help her hide. What

Emily G (not a newspaper)

EmilyGorcenski

In Charlottesville, we knew there were "outside forces," domestic and foreign. We proved it. We know their names, addresses, families, histories.These things don't matter, because what is happening in Minneapolis

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

Dunning-Kruger asymmetry. The less confident, more doubtful must always work to understand the ones more sure of themselves. Just like people living in cities often pay extra taxes.https://twitter.com/jillfilipovic/status/132557873222093209

brittany packnett cunningham ain’t here for real.

MsPackyetti

This is only half true. You can listen to the leaked audio & know that Trump knows just a small % of Black voters staying home can help secure victory.

Danielle Navarro

djnavarro

This is a lovely thread about Bayesian statistics and Bayesian cognition. That being said, I think a *lot* of care is required before treating Bayesian models as normative standards for

Andrew Micieli

MicieliA_MD

The tPA recommendation on the NNT website changed to "the net benefit & harms are unclear due to uncertainty of data" authored by @TheSGEMI believe it's helpful to clarify a

Beatrice Cherrier

Undercoverhist

1/ In 1938 as in 2018, trade wars, tariffs and mercantilism were hot topics. That year, Bryn Mawr economist Karl Anderson published a blistering critique of Australian econs’ attempts to

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Bitcoin does not have competition.A from E23 of Swan Signal with @saifedean & @GeorgeGammon Written for Swan by @rsarrow, subscribe to his newsletter for more great Bitcoin content http://robsarrow.substack.com Over

Dr Ben Britton

BMatB

Limited energy to explore this fully right now - for me this is frustrating, sad, but inevitable news (short thread):"BBC News - Nuclear: Hitachi 'withdraws' from £20bn Wylfa project"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-54

Rachel Kleinfeld

RachelKleinfeld

I wrote my dissertation and my second book on the rule of law, and think it's the most fundamental part of any democracy. So I read @jonathanchait 's piece on

Katherine Ellen Foley

katherineefoley

Worried about your #neckgaiter and/or #buff you've been using as a mask cos of some headlines you've seen? I gotchu. Tl;dr that study did NOT say that all neck gaiters

heli✺s

helioslogos

The CIA and MarsA lost history thread Many of my lost history threads are taken with some skepticism which is understandable. The things which happened in the past are very