#Nobel

Patricia Murray

PMurray_65

1. Please listen to Wilmshurst’s seminar on Dishonesty in Medical Research:https://youtube.com/watch?v=awmWaOKLj9U&t=2s Peter tells us about Poldermans, a cardiologist whose fraudulent research is thought to have caused 800,000 excess

Robert McNees

mcnees

The physicist Lise Meitner was born #OTD in 1878. She discovered fission in uranium and was the first person to understand both its mechanics and implications.Image: Atomic Heritage Foundation (photographer

Let SDNY Prosecute 45 We Got Other Things To Do

bogeydogg

It never ceases to amaze me that if republicans act with any nearly normal behavior we r supposed 2 suddenly start acting like we’ve turned a corner in discourse. Wallace

Oyebola Okunogbe

oyebolaoo

I read this blog post on the 2019 Econ nobel prize &I have a some thoughts.I shld start with revealing my background and potential sources of bias.1)One of the 3(Kremer)

TakingHayekSeriously🧨

FriedrichHayek

Friedrich Hayek's graduate student Arthur Lewis was the first black man to win a Nobel Prize in an area other than the Peace Prize. "I got into the history of

Shane Claiborne

ShaneClaiborne

Franklin Graham has doubled down his support for Trump. Even after the attack on the Capitol, he says Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize. It’s long past time to stop

Michael McMasters

sehomemcmasters

It is a logical fallacy to discard a thought based on who offered it up, BUT... I would like to offer a point to consider. Is it possible that the

Sahil Bloom

SahilBloom

The Feynman Technique is a foundational mental model for unlocking growth in your career, startup, business, or writing.A thread on how it works and how it can change your life...

Rebecca Davis Gibbons

RDavisGibbons

1/ Tomorrow (1/22/21), the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) enters into force. It bans all nuclear weapons-related activity to include threatening nuclear use. Need some background on

Shriyash Upadhyay

shriyashku

@ericneyman, I just read your blog post on exploitation bias. Some thoughts:I think there are a lot of other plausible explanations.1) Risk Aversion: a risk averse agent would be expected

Adriano Aguzzi

AdrianoAguzzi

The twittermob is aflame because of Rudi Jänisch's preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.12.422516v1 . Here is my take:1. I've known Rudi Jänisch for 35 years. I can vouch that he is among the

Billy Bostickson 🏴👁&👁 🆓

BillyBostickson

1. Fred Hoyle vindicated again! SARS-COV-2 arrived on a comet, you ignorant fools!https://www.academia.edu/43861523/Implications_of_Haplotype_Switching_for_the_Origin_and_Global_Spread_of_COVID_19The virus originated as a pure genetic strai

Ruth McManus

RMcMnow

#GeoAdvent Day 2's goodie is #Norwegian #explorer, #sportsman, #geographer, #oceanographer, #scientist, #diplomat, #humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930): ‘The difficult is what takes a little time; t

Prof Anna Watts

drannawatts

National science communities tend to revere their Nobel Prize winners, and can be reluctant to criticise them when they behave inappropriately. However a prize does not excuse poor behaviour, and

Ivor Cummins

FatEmperor

Nobel Prize for Science winner Professor Levitt of Stanford- one of the few who called this thing correctly back in February- with a population fatality rate of 0.04 to 0.05%,

Samanway Banerjee

qriosam

One fine afternoon while Jyoti Basu was on the chair as the Chief Minister of West Bengal, he received a call from the Calcutta Airport. It was brought to his

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