#Harm

David Fisman

DFisman

I am not sure what’s up with all the angsting about test characteristics of rapid tests. Worried about low specificity and false positives? Repeat the test and only consider repeat

believe 🇩🇪🇵🇰

red_wing_red

Sometimes I'm so overwhelmed when I think about Allah Az Wajal that I want to present him to everybody, but then I'd think who'd listen to me? It so happened

Chingford Chris

ChingfordChrisS

My friend's mum died yesterday from Corona. The nurses let her (a police detective) stay longer than the restrictions allowed, sitting with her a couple of hours a day forbthe

Brent O'Carrigan

brentocarrigan

Short thread on evidence for steroids in #ARDS or lung crit care before #RECOVERYtrial: some discussion on #MedTwitter that "steroids make everything better" or "we already know steroids help" that

Amit Schandillia

Schandillia

[QUICK THREAD: THE PARADOX OF TOLERANCE]1/31Should the tolerant tolerate the intolerant? The question has given sleepless nights to political thinkers for centuries. That's because it's a paradox, but also because

Joe Boden

JoeBoden66

Here's what I wrote to the PM... Dear Prime MinisterDuring the past 18 months I was a member of your Chief Science Advisor’s Expert Panel on Cannabis. 1/ I would

Manos Moschopoulos

maledictus

Some around Greece's governing party celebrate the fact that asylum claims by Syrians are being rejected en masse as inadmissible. That is because our authorities pretend that Turkey is safe

Lily Bailey

LilyBaileyUK

This is a controversial subject that seems to cause a lot of division. I don't think it's helpful to dogmatically argue either that total recovery for everyone is possible and

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

2020 was a shitty year for most things, but it was a banner year for books about fighting monopolies, and for the fight itself. It started (in Dec '19) with

Chris Kenyon

BoxbikeLondon

This is really poor journalism from @TheTimes. The article alleges that LTNs push traffic onto the roads where poorer people live. A couple of anecdotal quotes linked to some

Lea Kayali

LeaKayali

As a comms person this is really important to me.Language becomes policy! If we say we have a "terrorism" problem (even a white one), lawmakers will give us "counter-terrorism" solutions.

Eric Lang

eric_lang

OK, time again for Twitter harassment 101.Never tag an account known for harassment in a minority creators mentions; also conversely never @ that creator in any thread in which also

Bill Morris 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊

Lcars24

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.—George Carlin If it talks like a goose and walks like a goose, it’s a Nazi.—Seth Meyers Politics is the

Jeff Jarvis

jeffjarvis

Here's an unintended consequence from Facebook's independent Oversight Board: Does it make Facebook's judgment look good by comparison?1/https://www.oversightboard.com/news/165523235084273-announcing-the-oversight-board-s-first-

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️

realchrisrufo

Seattle's Office of Civil Rights has developed a "race and social justice" curriculum for all 10,000 city employees.I've obtained new documents from the city's segregated "whites-only" trainings, which induct

Greg Larsen Tweet Bot

gregmlarsen

Today is a day to reach out to anyone who isn't PM Scott Morrison and ask RUOK? It's a hard year, we all feel so isolated and unless you're our

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