#Effectiveness

Jens von Bergmann

vb_jens

Best rundown of the Canadian covid app I have seen so far. A couple of comments re privacy, equity and effectiveness.https://twitter.com/mgeist/status/1289998824304386048 Privacy. Installing the app has the same privacy implications

Thomas Pine™-Free Thinker

Ameripundit2020

Jack, I'm an IT guy. I have been documenting Twitter's algorithmic shadow-banning and error-banning for years. Cut the crap. Twitter is using an entire suite of server side scripts to

Ned Nikolov, Ph.D.

NikolovScience

Did you know that, in 2019, WHO published a report on the effectiveness of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) such as social distancing & travel restrictions in fighting pandemics (https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/329438/9789

Payton J. Jones

paytonjjones

The field of clinical psychology naturally provides a perfect little petri dish for pseudoscience. Why?1) Common factors do the heavy lifting in psychotherapy, meaning almost any type of therapy will

Amir Attaran

profamirattaran

There are SEVEN vaccines in the final phase of clinical trials.The Trudeau govt bought none of those. Instead it bought the Novavax, which is in the middle phase.This means Canada

Jennifer Davis

sigje

If you do have ADHD and are struggling with effectiveness at work in this time of crises, one of the things you can do (if you have team psychological safety)

☭爆米花同志☭

sertruline

I am not against ruthless criticism of China. Mao showed us the utility and necessity of untempered criticism. But there are some important elements of that process that are found

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

Depression is like pollution. The optimal amount is not zero. Having had zero bouts of depression by age 25 is probably a worse mental illness than having had 1-2 mild/moderate

Kevin McKernan 🙂

Kevin_McKernan

Speaking of short circuiting…Here is an excellent manuscript… But I pose a question to the astute reader. Where is Waldo?https://msphere.asm.org/content/5/5/e00637-20 What key aspect of this design might bias the study?

Sylvia Pellicore

Roenok

The drive to give hydroxychloroquine to everyone despite scant evidence is gonna kill a lot of people I hope I’m wrong! I sincerely hope hydroxychloroquine is a miracle drug, because

Will Weider

CandidCIO

Project goals, a thread...Recently I worked with a group to develop goals around a large project. I realized that these could apply to a lot of projects with little change.

Kim

kiminoa_seattle

Let's see your awesome homemade CDC-recommended cloth mask!Ours are made from EPIC Reads Pride swag. We used the Surgeon General's short video for how to make these. On a great

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

1/ We're now five months into the rollout of the #Covid vaccines - enough time to make some judgments of how they're working in the real world.So let's talk honestly

Dr. Theresa Tam

CPHO_Canada

1/3 @GovCanHealth is reviewing a range of simpler to use and faster #COVID19 tests. As the regulator, Health Canada is responsible for ensuring the safety, effectiveness and quality of all

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

I had the opportunity to write a comment about findings from a large vaccination cohort study in Scotland. I use the comment to discuss some of the challenges of observational

Harbinger of Doom

BrandesStoddard

#dnd5e So look, optimize if you want. It's fine - with caveats.Just a couple of things: don't push other people at the table to optimize to the same degree. This