#Scientific

SamSays

samjawed65

Social media and WhatsApp are replete with unscientific, non evidence-backed cures for prevention and treatment of COVID-19. This thread is about those unverified claims that were propagated and endorsed by

Michael Nielsen

michael_nielsen

For people interested in open science, Paul David's paper is, I think, the best piece ever written about how science came to be as open as it is: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2209188> Odd,

Bhakt's Nightmare

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A thread of fake news filled videos viral on Social media related to corona virus1/n‘Iconic, legendary, masterstroke’ Sonu Nigam explains the great scientific discovery that India is the first to

Roscoe B Davis🎖⭐️⭐️⭐️

RoscoeBDavis1

It’s a pretty simple fact and Tesla (the world’s largest supplier of lithium batteries) will tell you there isn't enough lithium on earth to build enough batteries for the world

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

And now for something almost completely different: Max Roser has a beautiful post about the Black Death. And no, that's not a contradiction 1/https://ourworldindata.org/breaking-the-malthusian-trap Roser points out and documents somethi

small robots

smolrobots

It's neither here nor there, but we've always felt alien life would be so different from our own that they'd be incapable of meaningfully distinguishing between humans and other apes,

Faheem Younus, MD

FaheemYounus

Debunking 4 Claims of a Nobel Laureate (respectfully)Short version: ALL claims are wrong. Opinion is always weaker than scientific evidence; ANYONE’S opinionLong version: Lets debunks all claims: ppl will die

CovidSpectrum

CovidSpectrum

Thread (1/6): Research Interdisciplinarity All pillars of research positively benefit from including an interdisciplinary team to conduct the research whenever possible. #STEM #Interdisciplinarity #Covid19 #pandemic Thread (2/6): Research I

Massimiliano Greco

MGrecoMD

Indeed, we have in Italy politicians who claims that a lot of scientific data support their political ideas.A common claim -not the only one- is that REACT-1 study, by @SRileyIDD,

VeronicaM

_V5M1000

GOOD - SWEDEN STOPS PCR TESTS AS COVID19 DIAGNOSIS.Legal precedent set.The Swedish Public Health Agency has developed national criteria for assessing freedom from infection in covid-19.1-7https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/publicerat-mater

Rachel B

RachelBrownMSTP

@VUMChealth @OrthoVumc @VUMCTrauma My last tweet represents the least drastic thing VUMC should do about this. We do have policies about social media, incl. Twitter, stating that if you identify

Euresilience / Massimo

Euresilience

I’m excited about our new initiative to to strengthen collaboration between European and African astronomers.I’ll explain the project in this thread: The African continent has an immense astronomical heritage. Erathostene,

Mustafa Al-Bassam

musalbas

Every few months there's a study that shows that Covid antibody levels declines after infection, and the media incorrectly announces that natural immunity to Covid-19 fades. This morning, BBC News

Emma Ruth Phillips

EmmaRuth18

1/ I started meditating 20 mins a day, 5 days a week back in November. I’ve always eaten healthily and exercised regularly. I started meditating after a stressful time that

Dr. Amanda L. Glaze-Crampes

EvoPhD

"why do you care about evolution so much"....I am asked this frequently about research I do surrounding the intersections of science and society. Evolution is important, I answer, but this

Jonathan Kimmelman

KimmelmanJ

If you participate in a #cancer phase 1 trial, what are the chances of receiving a drug, at the right dose, that will eventually be approved for your cancer? About