I would rather have four quarters than 100 pennies. ✅

Retsef Levi is no doubt an accomplished operations researcher, but he has no background in epidemiology, virology, immunology, or clinical research. I get he's on the faculty of MIT with the cachet that carries, but his elementary misreadings of temporal correlation,

They're eliminating the Statistic Department as the Admins apparently can't do basic math or data scrubbing. "Other errors they found included numerous data errors, such as misplaced decimal points and incorrectly typed data." #stats

IYKYK #stats #rstats

Sure this 'news' is inconsequential compared to all the front-burner drama, but the Administration has changed the days for 2026 free entry to National Parks as outlined below. Nyet for MLK but da for Trump's birthday. I thought this was a prank at first.

Remember when he voted to confirm a die-hard anti vaxxer as HHS Secretary? That was the time for action, not lame tweeting afterwards.

Prime example of epistemic hubris, a trend that's on the rise. Remember when Titan imploded and everyone was an expert on submersibles? Now the Prez gives his 'opinion' on a scientific matter. "Common Sense"? Dunning Kruger effect will get people killed. 🛟 #medsky

Dumb question for all the #startrek fans: In Picard season 2, Agnes Jurati becomes the Borg Queen yet in season 3 she's no where to be seen. What happened?

Today I met a 'chiropractic neurologist". I didn't know that was even a thing. 🛟

@rbly.bsky.social Don't you teach this stuff, Robin? This is fairly basic after all. Looking to you to fix this so the next generation will do better! 👀

Colleague forwarded this to me. A new review of more than one thousand correlation analyses in leading biomedical journals shows widespread failure to report sample size and confidence intervals. Nearly half interpret correlation strength from a single point estimate. What are we doing? #stats

"The mind of man is capable of anything because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future."

Eric insists this article is objective but I saw Big Aluminum slip HIM a coupon for bulk foil. Next week he will try to put adjuvants in my coffee. [Seriously however: this is EXCELLENT and such an import topic given the misinformation about aluminum salts in vaccines.] 🛟

Wouldn't be my list (I've read exactly zero of these), but here's a gift link regardless in case you're interested. 📚

A propos of absolutely nada: Star Trek Picard is surprisingly entertaining. Much darker than Roddenberry would have liked no doubt and peppered with profanity, but it doesn't hesitate to go real dark and explore the human condition. Eschews binary good vs. evil. Nice surprise! #startrek

From Faulkner's "Requiem for a Nun": "The past in not dead and buried. It is not even past. " As much as we try, the past never stays where we consign it. It travels with us. Seems kind of relevant given today's climate.

🚨One more time. Stop comparing public health policies to Nazis. It is not edgy. It is not clever. It IS ignorance dressed up as outrage. It cheapens real atrocity and broadcasts that you do not know what you are talking about.These eejits don't but stop it anyway!

#stats Something you weren't aware of: Python package management is horrible. The library doesn't define an official project layout or a single lockfile specification. Every freakin' ecosystem makes its own. Native extensions make it all harder. So now you know. 🫠

Anyone remember when the country obsessed for a year over a blue dress and semen? THAT was our problem. Ah.....the good ol' days.

r warned me my argument was not numeric or logical. Python was even less forgiving. I don't know Julia but maybe @cameron.pfiffer.org can give me a heads-up on its manners. 🫠

Insidious in so many respects. The extremist font. Eleven stars in a halo around the President's head (the number of states that originally seceded from the Union). Using President Lincoln to add respectability to their nationalist messaging is a choice.

I wonder 💭 if UCSF will rehire Vinay Prasad given the unscientific dangerous slop he's shoveling at the FDA🤔 🔔🚨Just kidding! Of course they will with a new Endowed Chair: The Great Barrington Professor of Medicine. 👨‍🏫🥼 #medsky #idsky

Prasad "on Friday laid out a stricter approach for federal vaccine approvals,citing his team’s conclusion,without detailing the evidence, that coronavirus vaccines had contributed to the deaths of at least 10 children," They link the email if you want to see passive aggressive bs. Tracey Hoeg!

"if only...." A lament I utter like gospel every day, Rich.

Prasad "on Friday laid out a stricter approach for federal vaccine approvals,citing his team’s conclusion,without detailing the evidence, that coronavirus vaccines had contributed to the deaths of at least 10 children," They link the email if you want to see passive aggressive bs. Tracey Hoeg!

"A curtain of darkness is settling over our nation".

It just keeps getting worse when evidence is ignored and noise is rewarded. Here's a gift link, though not much of a gift.

Just keep the planes in the air and bring back penalties for airline nonsense. This is so far from being a priority that it's risible.

"Who decided to leave Robert F. Kennedy Jr. home alone at the Health and Human Services Department? Without adults to supervise the Secretary, he’s damaging public trust in immunizations, and now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been conscripted into his anti-vaccine campaign."

The whole grifting, sniveling lot of them should know what awaits them.

Damn it! Whooping cough is not a gentle illness. It literally tears the breath out of tiny lungs. Another infant in Kentucky succumbed to it. Three dead in twelve months. All unvaccinated. All preventable. We solved this disease long ago, yet fear peddling monsters keep dragging us backward 🛟

His "work". 🤡

A bit of advice that virtually no one here will appreciate: use your PTO. You're not a hero by forgoing it. You're a chump.

This would be hell: freezing and dark.

🚨Public health with RFK Jr feels like a national stress test where the first organ to fail is the brain. Science is optional, paranoia is policy, and the health care system is melting while the leadership tries to cure it with their vibes and vitamins.

My alma matter crushes Harvard. 🏈

Absolutely heartbreaking! “When you are dying, at least in my limited experience, you start remembering everything.” Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, writes about receiving a terminal diagnosis. 💔 Life is short people. Remember what matters most.

Picard Season 2 goes hard with ICE being malevolent monsters when Picard and his lot go back to the 21st century to repair the timeline.

🚨"that number is more than 900—and most of those students don’t fully meet middle-school math standards. Many students struggle with fractions and simple algebra problems....As one Stanford mathematician states, the idea that foundational concepts no longer matter is a recipe for idiocracy."

Time to write a strongly worded email to Senator Cassidy.

This is a GREAT idea! ☀️

🚨I have an idea: they should all quit including RFK jr. and be replaced with qualified scientists/physicians. 👨‍⚕️👩‍⚕️🧑‍🔬

Great movie!!🍿🍿🎥📽️👍👍

Are you smarter than an eighth grader from 1899?

"It is not the critic that counts but the man in the arena." For all the agonists out there, I 🫡 .

Who cares what he thinks?

Definitely worth your consideration. Clinicians will rightfully caution about the dangers of Al and purists will carp about fixing the system. All important and even life saving points, but it's Al or nothing. Or AI because traditional medicine/insurance failed miserably.

Whatever this means...step back.

Article 1 Section 1: Creates Congress and gives it all legislative power. First among equals 2025: If Congress is coequal,then gravity is optional ffs. Nothing this inert should claim authority on anything. The abdication of basic oversight is breathtakingly dangerous, irresponsible, and cowardly