#Causal

Edward Nirenberg

ENirenberg

So I'm told that there's some confusion going on about what placebos for vaccine trials should be.Let's chat about this one. It's really common to hear from anti-vaccine people that

Ioana Marinescu

mioana

Just published w. @rowenagray6 & @nichiflu @ELSFinance. In the US, technology played a causal role in enabling workers to move away from agriculture and into manufacturing. Structural transformation is not

Joshua Bell

joshuaa_bell

Ever wonder how diabetes begins?Our new paper in @ADA_Journals looks at effects of being more genetically prone to adult diabetes on metabolism across early life.We found signs of disease liability

Rex Douglass

RexDouglass

Today I'll be live tweeting Zhang et al (June 30 2020) which argues that "mandated face covering ... significantly reduces the number of infections"https://www.pnas.org/content/117/26/14857 I picked this because: (1) It's

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

As we struggle with the difficult decisions about reopening K-12 schools, one thing I've been unsure about is the degree of transmission by children. A new study from Korea provides

David AttenBruh🦇🐍

AlHendiify

Racism in American Zoos: a thread Much of this is going to structural and generalized. I’m not interested in calling anyone out in particular, but am identifying areas of growth.

Health Nerd

GidMK

I find studies like this to be such a headacheOn the one hand, I think the research is valid and importantOn the other, this headline is SUPER misleading and there

el gato malo

boriquagato

i noticed some interesting things about the EU covid curves1. the steep part of the decline in death rate came before distancing could have had effect.2. the period of peak

Stephen Walt

stephenWalt

I am a huge fan of @ProfPaulPoast and I'm in awe of his threads about teaching IR. But I rise to offer a respectful dissent to this tweet: https://twitter.com/ProfPaulPoast/status/1288252100808454145To be

Kirsten

Kirsten3531

Reasons why people might get mad at you for decoupling:https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7cAsBPGh98pGyrhz9/decoupling-vs-contextualising-norms 1) What your saying may have an implied action attached, and the implied action may be the wrong ac

Trevon D Logan

TrevonDLogan

A thread on something we rarely talk about (except as a potential limitation): external confirmation of results. The number to remember here is 2.5% When @drlisadcook and @jmparman and I

Sam Hoadley-Brill

deonteleologist

Alright, since "Jeremy" wants the smoke, it appears I'm going to have to roll out a thread about how his team's sophistical posturing on topics like intersectionality engenders just enough

David Jones

Davejonesy

There's been a tonne written about the possible links b/w military service and involvement in RWE, especially with some @NPR reporting highlighting that about ~20% of those charged in the

Casanova Lab

casanova_lab

We show that neutralizing autoantibodies to type I IFNs underlie a third of the life-threatening adverse reactions to yellow fever virus live-attenuated virus (YFV 17D): https://rupress.org/jem/article/218/4/e20202486/211761/Auto-antibodies

Post-Liberal Pete 🇬🇧

post_liberal

Japan has the lowest level of obesity in the world. In 2008 they introduced a ‘Metabo Law’ which requires men & women aged between 40-74 to have their waistline measured

AJ Kay

AJKayWriter

As the "We're all going to die!!!" narrative loses efficacy w/ the declining death rate, we are seeing the rise of the "long-term effects" angle in order to keep the

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