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Tim Dickinson

7im

1/ One of the most fascinating things I learned while researching #ConspiracyTheories for my latest Rolling Stone feature is that certain personality traits predispose people for conspiratorial thinking. 2/ Eric

arkancide_is_real

Arkancideisreal

Here's why I think this #hrdoxychloroquine "study" data is fakehttps://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31180-6/fulltext#sec1A thread....@99freemind @realDonaldTrump @PressSec (1) the study says that

T. Greg Doucette

greg_doucette

This argument might make more sense if the metrics were time-correlatedIn reality, reductions in crime preceded the budget increase – in NYC, and everywhere else in the countryhttps://twitter.com/izengabe_/status/1296805418858090498 Accur

James Lomas

JamesLomas88

New pharmaceutical products in the US whose prices don't represent good value for money come at a real cost - listen to us on @bridgethecitywi talking about recent work by

Paul Poast

ProfPaulPoast

A question I pose to my grad students: should we trust data, especially historic data?Take historic international trade data. Should we trust it? [THREAD] What do I mean by "historic"?

Marino van Zelst 🌱

mzelst

Een draad over de psychologie van strategische besluitvorming. Waarom nemen we zo vaak slechte besluiten en waarom leren we zo slecht van de consequenties? Spoiler alert: evolutie naait ons een

Paul Poast

ProfPaulPoast

What's the "value" offered by international relations scholarship? What does it mean to think about world events "like an international relations scholar"? Trump's order to withdrawal troops from

Tomos Potter

TomosPotter

The type-set version of my 1st chapter is out now in @AmNat!With @ronbassar, @CGhalambor, @GuppyProject and folk not on Twitter.https://doi.org/10.1086/711874 If you like guppies and/or detecting rapid evolution in the wild,

Paul Poast

ProfPaulPoast

Do top US Generals seek war for profit, as claimed by @realDonaldTrump?No...but it's complicated.[THREAD]https://twitter.com/wolfblitzer/status/1303049106026369025 It's complicated because we have to answer two questions:1) Is war p

Nathan Kalmoe

NathanKalmoe

Lots of ordinary Republicans are endorsing violence. We'd like that number to drop, but the precipitating causes deserve our focus even more than trying to persuade that violence is inappropriate.

STEMtheBleeding

STEMthebleeding

The Education Dept's legal counsel put out a memo explaining that "no, in fact a President cannot unilaterally cancel debts across the board", but apparently Ed Markey didn't get that

Matt Notowidigdo

ProfNoto

Just under the wire again, but I continue my annual tradition -- my 10 favorite economics papers published in 2020, ordered alphabetically[Was pretty tough this year; might have to do

Dr. Literature_Lady 💌📚📜🎙

Literature_Lady

Tiny things I loved as an early modernist in Season 2 of Discovery of Witches (based on the books written by @DebHarkness...an Elizabethan scholar and expert in 16th/17th science/alchemy!).(Thread) 1.

Lyman Stone 石來民

lymanstoneky

Today @ehaspel is out with a piece responding to my argument that support for children should be routed through allowances instead of care. He argues we should indeed earmark spending

Yangyang Cheng

yangyang_cheng

Thrilled to contribute an essay to @BulletinAtomic's 75th anniversary issue. I explore the relationship between science & the border, from nuclear weapons to #Xinjiang camps, space programs to #COVID19: how

Multiracial White Person, Vaporub Respecter

Latinks1

Today on this episode of "Latinks and Class in America," let's talk about working-class politicians! Remember, you almost never escape the habits and markers of the class you were born

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