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Pete Wharmby

commaficionado

Autism myth-busting - a thread.Please read and share widely.Autistic folk, feel free to add. Non-autistic folk, feel free to ask questions!#autistic #autism 1. Autism is not only a childhood thing.

Sarah Braun

braunsk

Lots of petitions and letters out there asking for elected officials to #ProtectLibraryWorkers and prioritize them for vaccines. Local chapters of @ALALibrary have taken the initiative, because ALA said it

Anosognosiogenesis

pookleblinky

The US native american population before 1492 was about 60 million people. This was only a little less than the entire population of Europe, which was about 75 million. And,

Quinn 'Moonracer' Maximiliano 🌱 🏴

NoThatIsNotAll

meet capitalism's best kind of house ghoul (a thread):the subject matter expert who publishes an opinion that politicians, the media, and other non-experts amplify to create and justify public policy

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

I'd like to highlight a point about epistemology. Many people—scientists and journalists—with infectious disease experience immediately pegged this as the next potential SARS. It had all the hallmarks. Nothing was

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD

paimadhu

In our epidemiology course for journalists, I used this as example of selection bias & uncritical journalistic reporting.Here are a few headlines in Indian media screaming that 15% of Indians

duncangolicher

duncangolicher

What have Francois Balloux, Anthony Fauci, Michael Levitt, Neil Ferguson and John Ioniddis and Toby Young got in common? Answer. They have all publicly stated calculations of infection fatality ratios

Foster Friess

FosterFriess

THREAD: Donald Trump has been in the spotlight for his entire life.You think you know everything about our President, but here are some of the stories the Mainstream Media refuses

Financial Times

FinancialTimes

Many 16- to 30-year-olds around the world feel their futures have been thrown off track by Covid-19 and are increasingly anxious https://on.ft.com/36IEgRF Chief among their concerns is mental health and

abolitionism = spicy reformism

no_slave_coasts

“The British slave system was not in decline when the slave trade was abolished. On the contrary, all the evidence suggests that the slave trade was booming after 1783 –

Dr Ellie Murray

EpiEllie

I’m often asked for recommendations about what to read to learn about epidemiology. But listing books is kinda boring content.So, in no particular order, here is Taylor Swift as Epidemiology

Trinity

TrinityResists

#LGBTVoices Celebrates PrideLGBT+ REPRESENTATION IN MEDIAToday: And The Band Played OnA book by journalist Randy Shilts, adapted into a movie about the rise of AIDS in the 1980s & the

George Peretz QC

GeorgePeretzQC

Some thoughts on this article.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/14/why-brexit-will-delay-uk-getting-vaccine-and-cost-more?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other I have to say that I am a bit edgy about linking the current Coronavirus crisis to dis

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rebeca6169

“On a particularly boring day, I had a clever but unfortunate inspiration. I seized a piece of cardboard, some tubes of tint... and, confronting a typical Montmartre street corner, I

Oli Sims

oli_m_sims

Let’s talk #WeightLoss. I’ve been hovering over the tweet button a while on this so bear with me. I have struggled with my weight since I was a kid.

BuzzFeed News

BuzzFeedNews

BREAKING: Over 250,000 Americans have now died from the coronavirus. The rising toll comes as hospitals fill up and people continue to reject effective measures to reduce the spread for

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