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This article nicely illustrates a common phenomenon in contemporary feature writing: the use of science that the author very probably hasn't read to provide factoids.A short thread. /1https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/13148069328

In a crowded field, my least favourite COVID-19 minimisation troll tactic is the claim that "99.5% of people survive".An angry thread./1 First, this ignores the other costs of COVID-19 infection,

For what it's worth, I think that actually paying people to review would lead to all kind of foreseeable and unforeseeable problems, because adding money to a situation always does.

A short thread to try to explain to non-UK people what seems to be happening with the A-level results in England&Wales.Disclaimers:1) There are lots of anecdotes going round2) The situation

Some interesting (to me) details about the retracted Clark et al. article. One thread per detail.This is thread #1: The preregistration.(There may only be one thread, depending on my motivation

This preprint is getting a lot of likes and retweets. But a correlation of .994 when one of the variables is an integer in the range (0,29) seems... optimistic. /1https://twitter.com/BrennanSpiegel/status/1265119535901732865

This (very valid) point reminds me of a related question I have about the confidentiality of data. A short (I hope) thread. /1https://twitter.com/simoncolumbus/status/1263741877284716544 I am fairly skeptical of many of

Counterpoint: If you think that the current world in which published science is peer reviewed has flaws (and it certainly does), wait until you see what a world without peer

Suppose you had a high degree of confidence that both of these were true:1. The real case fatality rate of #COVID19 in 40-50 year olds is 0.5%, and more or

Important thread. A lot of people are conflating "had underlying medical issues" with "were three weeks away from dying from cancer". A very large % of people have underlying medical

Since 5G is trending (in my head), an anecode that was told to me when I visited the operations centre of a large French mobile phone operator a few years