#Study

Ancient Rome & Greece have a certain charm because their secular history & politics, life is so well documented. You can read a 1st century BCE senator & his political
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1. @isonewengland has a new URL/page for completed economic studies. (http://bit.ly/3mjHh1j ) The page also has info re pending studies, incl. one examining the bidirectional use of ties w/NY, NB, &
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So I went down a rabbit hole of human challenge studies through history, there's some Good, some Bad and some Ugly.1/. Smallpox 1796 - English Edward Jenner tested the world’s
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(THREAD 1/5) Our new study found that turnout gear may be an understudied & important source of #PFAS chemical exposures for #firefighters in fire stations, which is where they spend
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Biotech thread of the day; $INFI. This company has a first-in-class, oral, once-daily, immuno-oncology development candidate that selectively inhibits PI3K-gamma. I think the valuation of this company is not reflective
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1. The exigency required to engage in the arduous regional diplomacy needed to bring about a political settlement will be eliminated by an open-ended troop commitment. Washington will once again
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Today seems like a good day to talk about the Recovery trial (http://recoverytrial.net ). Mortality for patients hospitalised with COVID-19 locally remains c30% and, until yesterday, no treatment was shown to
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Sure.Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, hydroxychloroquine quickly came to be widely used on the basis of very thin evidenceβ€”a very small randomized trial (1) and a poorly done small observational
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If, like me, you got caught up in pop-psych climate comms in the denier-ridden haze of 2010-2014, you might have heard about the 'backfire effect', where giving a non-science-accepter facts
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If you’re struggling with your trading consider this:My trading struggled for MANY years. I held losers, hoping for a comeback. I cut winners quickly, b/c I didn’t want to see
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1/8 This study about transmission in NC schools is getting a lot of attention. My thoughts;https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2021/01/06/peds.2020-048090@JMartin4Schools @votekeithsutton @WRAL 2/8 Prevalence in NC had rema
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Like many, I suspect, I’ve been thinking about the events of the last year and thinking about my study of history. I really love the period of the American Revolution.
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I don't blame the Duke researchers for the flawed reporting on the gaiter study. Any science reporter knows you talk to more than one expert for a story. So much
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Good vaccine news continues:@moderna_tx just announced its vaccine has shown 94,5% efficacy.In the study of more than 30,000 participants, 95 #covid19 cases were observed (starting two weeks after second dose):90
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Lockdown as experimental therapy for population health. A research protocolIn order to evaluate a therapy in medical trials, it is ideally subjected to randomized, placebo ("sham") controlled trials. Often, medicine
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