#Skepticism

Mark Hoofnagle

MarkHoofnagle

So Remdesivir, some good news, some bad. Not a game changer, but it may help COVID patients requiring supplemental O2 *before* they become critically ill. Some regional confounding in the

Daniel Yamins

dyamins

1/ I'm often confronted with skepticism that neural network models of the brain are intelligible, or that they're even proper models at all, considering how "different they look" from real

Michael Thomas Cucek

MichaelTCucek

#JapanPolitics - the degree of similarity between the Abe Administration's fight against #Covid_19 and the Johnson Administration's fight in Vietnam is approaching 1:1https://twitter.com/HirokoTabuchi/status/1245678017957036033 At the beginni

dikgaj

dikgaj

(1) It is the beginning of the end for TMC. However, BJP is not yet fully there. To be fully "there", it has to convince the Bengali Hindu "middle" that

Ferg

trader_ferg

Read @AnnieDuke Thinking in Bets a while ago and loved this book!Found my notes on it before;1) We have a tendency to equate the quality of a decision with the

Bear Braumoeller

Prof_BearB

The most recent episode of @yourewrongabout, on political correctness, is a must-listen. It's a look back on the various moral panics of the 1990s surrounding speech, especially on campus, and

Ali A Olomi

aaolomi

Avatar: The Last Airbender characters as the zodiac a thread- Aries: Zuko- impulsive, driven, aggressive, and governed by obsession. Strong sense of self. Tries to be good. Also Aries: Zhao-

Leslie Walker

leslie_walker_

Today is the anniversary of @KlayThompson going off on OKC in Game 6 of the WCF. It's also @tradeoffspod drop day. Here's an 11-part thread, one for every 3 Klay

Dr Joshua Wolrich (BSc MBBS MRCS)

drjoshuawolrich

Like most doctors, I used to think that a person’s health was always defined by their weight. I judged patients who came to hospital based on their size and sometimes

el gato malo

boriquagato

this is going to be the key issue to focus on: the new spike in EU cases is not leading to a spike in deaths.there seem to be several possible

Bryan O'Nolan

BryanONolan

THE NON-POLITICS OF MASK WEARINGa theory in a thread.I am not an epidemiologist.I am not a political scientist.I am that most feared of experts, a man with an internet connection.Please

Must play the blindness card in electronic music

BigGlitch1

this was a good read, this deep tech sound wasn't my bag at all and still isn't but I remember being disgusted at all that anti-shuffle shit, as if london

Steadman™

AsteadWesley

NEW: The Minneapolis City Council stunned all when it pledged to "end policing." Now, several tell me they regret the pledge and it sowed confusion. How what seemed like political

Wes Pegden

WesPegden

Age-targeted strategies are often interpreted in extreme ways: "cut off", "perfectly segregate", etc, some part of society, while everyone else "gets on with normal life".Obviously in this formulation, skeptici

Jess McGuire

jessmcguire

I got a traditional Chinese massage yesterday and the nice old man who provided it asked if I had any specific pain and I told him I’d been having quite

Eric Lipton

EricLiptonNYT

JUST POSTED: 316 million people in 42 states urged to stay at home. Whose idea was this? Well, here is the never-before-told story of the birth of this policy &