They gave ivermectin to thousands of people outside of a controlled experiment. Was that unethical and bad medicine given the state of knowledge in late 2020? Yes.
Tag: science
Host, parasite, and failure at the colony level: COVID-19 and the US information ecosystem
Dr. Birx in the role the rapid raccoon, watching herself lose her grip on scientific reality as the authoritarian leader douses the public health information system with bleach and sets it on fire with an ultraviolet ray gun "inside the body."
Santa’s magic, children’s wisdom, and inequality (a timeless holiday classic essay!)
Santa is harmless fun and existential comfort-food. So, consider this an attempted joyicide.
Sociologist, scientist? Toward transparency, accountability, and a sharing culture
Whether or not sociology is science, we should have transparency, accountability, and a sharing culture in our work. This makes our work better, and also maybe increases our legitimacy in public.
Where preprints fit in, COVID-19 edition
I recorded a 16-minute talk on the scientific process, science communication, and how preprints fit in to the information ecosystem around COVID-19. It's called, "How we know: COVID-19, preprints, and the information ecosystem." The video is on YouTube here, also embedded below, and the slides, with references, are up here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWi4Q5rZiO0 Happy to have your…
ASA’s letter against the public interest and our values
ASA speaks out against open access again.
New findings: The widening political divide over science
Political conservatives, Republicans, and Americans who attend religious services regularly, all report falling levels of confidence in the scientific community.
Science finds tiny things nowadays (Malia edition)
What does a really really small effect that is real and interesting actually mean?
On artificially intelligent gaydar
Quick notes on the study that tried to train computers to find the gay.
The sky is falling because of feminist biology, Factual Feminist edition
Is the 'Factual Feminist' built on a foundation of paranoia, half-truths, untruths, and oversimplifications?
Family Inequality 