#Studies

I’m a virologist & #1 question I got today was whether to gargle & with what. If SARS2 seems to infect throat before spreading to lungs, might gargling protect people
Read more
30 million people in the US have been laid off because of the pandemic. Research has found that a layoff is in the top five most stressful events of a
Read more
WHAT DO WE WANT?Expedited development and deployment of #COVID19 therapeutics using sound and proven clinical study design practices to ensure safety and efficacy!WHEN DO WE WANT IT?When the science demonstrates
Read more
Can we normalize "praying fathers"?If you asked the average guy to give you the specs of his dream future wife, you would definitely see "a praying wife" in the list.It
Read more
Hi. I see you’re a former prosecutor. I’m curious how many poor black defendants you decided to let history, not a jury, judge. Or is that reserved for powerful white
Read more
I've got my five-point harness strapped in, it's time to run me through the centrifuge at 20g. Liquify me. Good humanities is claiming Greece invented beauty and Rome invented language.
Read more
First of @PhysAnth's monthly webinars, on the evolution of health and history of human diseases. #AAPAWebinars is the hashtag I think First up is @monicaMedHist, a medical historian of the
Read more
.@MichelleRempel please update your understanding on this. There is no contradiction or "flip-flop" here. Dr. Tam's (@CPHO_Canada) original statement that there is no benefit to healthy (uninfected) people wearing masks
Read more
Adam, a reader, wrote to me to say, "My wife just bought a medical-treatment device called Exogen. It's not cheap. It purportedly uses ultrasound to promote bone healing.1/ "We're both
Read more
@Wardah_abbas salam sis. Check out the replies under this tweet. Remember when you tweeted that Islam in theory is different from Islam in practice. I almost developed a contrary opinion
Read more
how i changed;a thread most of the people who get to "know" me think that i'm this naive, shy and quite girl, except some of my school friends and family
Read more
Recognize George Floyd's murder as a tragedy but realize that police brutality is an issue which transcends simple racial boundaries.https://scholar.harvard.edu/fryer/publications/empirical-analysis-racial-differences-police-use-force W
Read more
Finally read this paper in detail. Overall very compelling case for abandoning small individual/group differences studies with neuroimaging data.https://twitter.com/smarek0502/status/1297154759556763649 Results are reminiscent of @nicebread
Read more
The history of medicine is littered w/meds+interventions that “seemed to make sense,” “might help,” or had promising initial data that ultimately ended up causing real harm.The mark of scientific leadership
Read more
According to the controversial psychologist R. Philippe Rushton, black people on average are more aggressive, impulsive, sexually promiscuous, and lazy. Racists love this theory. Turns out the truth is the
Read more
Here’s a breakdown of JK Rowling’s most recent transphobic rant (I know, it’s getting hard to keep track of them all). The terminology used here is extremely outdated and transphobic,
Read more