#Study

Nobody read past the headline on that "hydroxycholorquine doesn't help" article. The "study" in it is not a study. It's a survey of past patients, which creates wildly varying datasets.
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Today I keep thinking about that part of @SaraNAhmed’s Living a Feminist Life where she writes about diversity work as the production of documents.Leadership realizes the org has a diversity
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1/4 Interesting: A wet lab study from Germany suggests that some degree of limited background immunity against #COVID19 may exist in the population (~1/3 of their healthy donor sample) due
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The sheer volume of reporters/newspapers/tv stations that have unquestioningly accepted the results of the #SturgisRally study is... well... disappointingThere are some assumptions in it that could very well be flawed.
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This mouse study is used as evidence that seed oils (linoleic acid) causes obesity. It uses very well controlled diets. Mice eating 1% linoleic acid gained less fat than those
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after you find out about birth charts the world just looks different.. it starts to look hella different when you study psychology. having astrology, psychology & numerology knowledge will give
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German study on viral load kinetics and seroconversion timescale, out in @nature. Highlights huge time sensitivity of swab testing, viral loads in upper respiratory tract tank after ~5 days of
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Does anyone have a link to the actual study?https://twitter.com/skarlamangla/status/1252327455609634817 Apparently it was 863 people? I’m sorry. AYFKM?!? I think to really declare numbers like this for a serology study
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More deaths, no benefit from malaria drug in VA virus study https://apnews.com/a5077c7227b8eb8b0dc23423c0bbe2b2 #science The thing about this is if it happened to be a "cure" it was totally for random
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11% of Mississippians can't vote because they've been convicted of disenfranchising felonies – the highest percentage of any state.16% of Black Mississippians can't vote because they've been convicted of disenfranchising
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Another @UMDLabovitz "study" about MN mining and employment - which is *nothing more* than asking mining companies how many people they think they will employ in the future and multiplying
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A lot of antibody surveillance results coming out at the moment, which gives us a chance to think about the fatality rate of #COVID19But, there's a catch. Let's talk about
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Look closely at national benchmarking data for international learning experiences in higher education, and you'll see that 178% of #Earlhamites participate in study abroad experiences. That's not an error.https://earlham.edu/news-ev
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Alberta is helping take the lead on trials for potential #COVID19 medications. This AB-specific study investigates effectiveness of #Hydroxychloroquine in preventing hospitalization for people at highest risk of developing severe
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This reminds me of my previous work on information seeking and sharing behaviors during crisis. 1/n #InformationSeeking #ICT4D #M4D https://twitter.com/AnoopSimha/status/1246294034689044480 Any crisis or a disaster is perceived differently depending
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1/ The history of human experimentation is endlessly fascinating (& troubling).I recently came across this 1932 study from Edvin Brusgaard demonstrating that the agent that causes herpes zoster (shingles) can
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