#EVIDENCE

Crystal Goomansingh

cgoomansingh

While many counties and cities around the world are seeing infections drop and deaths related to Covid-19 decrease, infections around the world arw not stopping. @DrTedros again said the pandemic

Raj Mehta, MD

raj_mehta

1/ Brief EBM thread on cognitive bias related to interpreting early information, or "How to assess if an unconventional arguments is based on shared vs selective facts". Inspired by posts

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EggiePolice

[THREAD] @/618hyunjunk - CATFISH [EVIDENCE #1] Korean LanguageAs a team of local koreans, we knew he was not local korean speaker as soon as we had seen his tweets. Here

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

At this point @nytimes is just making stuff up. Where is the data that lockdowns have slowed the spread of #COVID? Comparing early v late v no lockdown states provides

Julia Galef

juliagalef

1/ I've noticed that a lot of people who pride themselves on being "rigorous" or "critical thinkers" have this simple heuristic that anecdotes = weak evidence. But I disagree! It

Kyle Shevlin

kyleshevlin

Been thinking about "impostor syndrome" and its misuse.Imposter Syndrome is feeling like a fraud despite overwhelming evidence you are not. It is _not_ feeling incapable of doing what you think

Shem Horne

Shem_Infinite

More importantly, why did Rod Rosenstein not inform the public that there was no evidence of collusion, or better yet, shut down the illegal Mueller witch hunt which he was

Lori Andersen, PhD

drloriandersen

Reading Chapter 11, I am struck by the thought that most adults have not learned the things we are asking students to learn in AST. 1. The purpose of an

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

The depressing thing for anyone interested in rigorous science and evidence these days is that you are constantly cast as a pessimist who is holding up progress. The opposite is

Nick Hassey

nickhassey

I read the systematic review on mass gatherings that is linked to in the government pandemic plan. This is *not* to say this is what the UK acted on for

Nancy

nancygedge

The economic argument is still raging.https://twitter.com/bengoldacre/status/1247277917454897152 I’m interested in this discussion around evidence based policy making. What is the evidence that policy makers are taking into account?Is it numbers? Per

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STRWBBYMlLK

Yes the cop was arrested, yes they allowed for a bail to be set (he should never have been given bail to begin with) and yes the evidence is clear...

Jo Dyer

instanterudite

Christian Porter's defamation action was touted by his lawyers as a substitute for the Inquiry We Didn't Get to Have when the PM refused to read the allegations against him

Netpol

netpol

This is really odd. Staff at the Addenbrookes NHS Trust have been advised that @CambsCops are stopping staff on their way to work and telling them NHS ID was insufficient

FBI Little Rock

FBILittleRock

It's #HappeningNow!Welcome to the @FBILittleRock Live Chat! Here's how we do it:Submit questions for our Evidence Response Team (ERT) team using #AskERT, and we'll try to tweet an answer back

Aproko Doctor

aproko_doctor

Ladies and gentlemen, this are sausages or hotdogs.I just want you to know that processed meat like sausages, hot dogs, corned beef, are classified as Group 1 carcinogensWhat does this