Bill Gardner
@billgardner.bsky.social
Psychologist & statistician, professor of psychiatry at the University of Ottawa. I am writing about cancer and the end of life at billgardner.Substack.com.
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As we enter the final season of the world I strongly recommend just ignoring the blatant plot holes in reality, that stuff is gonna drive you mad if you think about it too much
May 31, 2024 at 7:17 PM
As we enter the final season of the world I strongly recommend just ignoring the blatant plot holes in reality, that stuff is gonna drive you mad if you think about it too much
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The rest of the world looking at their social media feed coming from the US.
May 31, 2024 at 10:16 PM
The rest of the world looking at their social media feed coming from the US.
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Friends don't let friends fail to adjust for prognostic pre-treatment covariates* and needlessly fail to increase the precision of their experimental estimates trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
*especially pre-treatment outcome measures! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
*especially pre-treatment outcome measures! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The risks and rewards of covariate adjustment in randomized trials: an assessment of 12 outcomes fro...
Background Adjustment for prognostic covariates can lead to increased power in the analysis of randomized trials. However, adjusted analyses are not often performed in practice. Methods We used simula...
trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com
February 1, 2024 at 10:21 PM
Friends don't let friends fail to adjust for prognostic pre-treatment covariates* and needlessly fail to increase the precision of their experimental estimates trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
*especially pre-treatment outcome measures! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
*especially pre-treatment outcome measures! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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I would humbly argue that the Missouri AG arguing that an innocent person should be kept on death row because to reopen his case would destabilize the system is proof that the system most motherfucking definitely needs to be destabilized.
Big news today: StL Co. Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell is seeking to vacate Marcellus Williams' conviction. The MO AG thinks that revisiting wrongful convictions destabilizes the criminal legal system. So, yeah, expect the state to fight this.
theintercept.com/2024/01/29/m...
theintercept.com/2024/01/29/m...
St. Louis County Prosecutor Seeks to Vacate Death Penalty Conviction of Marcellus Williams
Citing crime scene DNA that didn’t match Marcellus Williams, Wesley Bell asked a Missouri court to review evidence of his innocence.
theintercept.com
January 29, 2024 at 6:22 PM
I would humbly argue that the Missouri AG arguing that an innocent person should be kept on death row because to reopen his case would destabilize the system is proof that the system most motherfucking definitely needs to be destabilized.
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At some point, "We have to keep Trump on the ballot or there will be violence" becomes, "We have to let Trump be president, or there will be violence," and that is, in fact, the point of the violence.
Politico’s Erica Orden, at the courthouse for the conclusion or Trump’s civil fraud trial, says proceedings were delayed this morning due to a bomb threat at Judge Engoron’s home.
January 11, 2024 at 2:32 PM
At some point, "We have to keep Trump on the ballot or there will be violence" becomes, "We have to let Trump be president, or there will be violence," and that is, in fact, the point of the violence.
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perennial peeve
Bernie Sanders: I want to pass universal health care.
Debate moderators: How will you pay for it?
Ron DeSantis: I want a balanced budget amendment.
Debate moderators: No further questions, moving on
Bernie Sanders: I want to pass universal health care.
Debate moderators: How will you pay for it?
Ron DeSantis: I want a balanced budget amendment.
Debate moderators: No further questions, moving on
January 11, 2024 at 3:20 AM
perennial peeve
Bernie Sanders: I want to pass universal health care.
Debate moderators: How will you pay for it?
Ron DeSantis: I want a balanced budget amendment.
Debate moderators: No further questions, moving on
Bernie Sanders: I want to pass universal health care.
Debate moderators: How will you pay for it?
Ron DeSantis: I want a balanced budget amendment.
Debate moderators: No further questions, moving on
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On a very deep level, many in the media elite and punditry simply refuse to accept that Dems/liberals have defeated or dramatically outperformed Trump/MAGA in the last three national elections.
This is regularly erased from the story of the Trump era. It's a remarkable blind spot.
This is regularly erased from the story of the Trump era. It's a remarkable blind spot.
January 11, 2024 at 11:30 AM
On a very deep level, many in the media elite and punditry simply refuse to accept that Dems/liberals have defeated or dramatically outperformed Trump/MAGA in the last three national elections.
This is regularly erased from the story of the Trump era. It's a remarkable blind spot.
This is regularly erased from the story of the Trump era. It's a remarkable blind spot.
January 9, 2024 at 5:30 PM
December 22, 2023 at 2:07 PM
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If enforcing eligibility requirements for president is in question: What's actually to stop a two-term president from running again, notwithstanding the 22nd Amendment?
December 21, 2023 at 4:35 PM
If enforcing eligibility requirements for president is in question: What's actually to stop a two-term president from running again, notwithstanding the 22nd Amendment?
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What else can you call this but fascism? What would you say if you saw it in another country? www.cnn.com/2023/12/16/p...
December 16, 2023 at 10:20 PM
What else can you call this but fascism? What would you say if you saw it in another country? www.cnn.com/2023/12/16/p...
University administrators vs House Republicans is the Olympiad of bad faith.
December 12, 2023 at 11:51 PM
University administrators vs House Republicans is the Olympiad of bad faith.
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I posted on Threads about how the CDC said 1000 people a week are dying of covid right now and people were like “well way MORE people were dying before” and it’s like yeah, I wanted you to care more then too
December 8, 2023 at 1:45 PM
I posted on Threads about how the CDC said 1000 people a week are dying of covid right now and people were like “well way MORE people were dying before” and it’s like yeah, I wanted you to care more then too
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We are on track to lose more lives to Covid this year (In the US) than AIDS claimed in the worst years of that epidemic. This is a nightmare world.
December 11, 2023 at 4:59 PM
We are on track to lose more lives to Covid this year (In the US) than AIDS claimed in the worst years of that epidemic. This is a nightmare world.
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No. But unions could.
December 9, 2023 at 9:54 AM
No. But unions could.
Starting my fourth round of cancer treatment. It’s a nil-nil match so far. I hope the refs will add a lot of extra time.
November 29, 2023 at 2:54 PM
Starting my fourth round of cancer treatment. It’s a nil-nil match so far. I hope the refs will add a lot of extra time.
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I only heard Derrida talk once, at Harvard, where he said he had visited as a graduate student and was assigned to the category ‘Special Auditor’ which, he charmingly remarked, is what he’d really been for the rest of his life.
November 29, 2023 at 6:53 AM
I only heard Derrida talk once, at Harvard, where he said he had visited as a graduate student and was assigned to the category ‘Special Auditor’ which, he charmingly remarked, is what he’d really been for the rest of his life.
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New study finds that from 1999 to 2020 "A total of 460,000 deaths were attributable to coal PM2.5". This is on the same order as deaths due to opiod overdoses (645,000, from 1999-2021). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Mortality risk from United States coal electricity generation
From 1999 to 2020, about 530,000 deaths in the Medicare population were attributable to US emissions by coal burning for electricity generation.
www.science.org
November 28, 2023 at 2:28 PM
New study finds that from 1999 to 2020 "A total of 460,000 deaths were attributable to coal PM2.5". This is on the same order as deaths due to opiod overdoses (645,000, from 1999-2021). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Today Bill Gardner informs me of Orwell's Dictum: "In much more than nine cases out of ten the only objectively truthful criticism would be 'This book is worthless ...' " billgardner.substack.com/p/should-i-b...
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Will. Finish. Book. This. Week.
Will.
Will.
November 28, 2023 at 3:53 PM
Today Bill Gardner informs me of Orwell's Dictum: "In much more than nine cases out of ten the only objectively truthful criticism would be 'This book is worthless ...' " billgardner.substack.com/p/should-i-b...
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