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This smells distinctly like collider bias and/or selection bias and/or regression to the mean... You simply can't select teen prodigies, and world class athletes rom databases, and go run regressions without serious consideration of the selection process!
"Most top achievers (Nobel laureates and world-class musicians, athletes, chess players) demonstrated lower performance than many peers during their early years. Across the highest adult performance, peak performance is negatively correlated with early performance" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance
Scientists have long debated the origins of exceptional human achievements. This literature review summarizes recent evidence from multiple domains on the acquisition of world-class performance. We re...
www.science.org
December 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This smells distinctly like collider bias and/or selection bias and/or regression to the mean... You simply can't select teen prodigies, and world class athletes rom databases, and go run regressions without serious consideration of the selection process!
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OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
May 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
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RFK Jr talking about the need for doctors to know how to treat measles for those who are unvaccinated.
“Only very sick kids should die from measles.”
No. They shouldn’t. That was the point of the vaccine. We eradicated the virus so children didn’t die.
Sick & disabled kids are not expendable!
“Only very sick kids should die from measles.”
No. They shouldn’t. That was the point of the vaccine. We eradicated the virus so children didn’t die.
Sick & disabled kids are not expendable!
May 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
RFK Jr talking about the need for doctors to know how to treat measles for those who are unvaccinated.
“Only very sick kids should die from measles.”
No. They shouldn’t. That was the point of the vaccine. We eradicated the virus so children didn’t die.
Sick & disabled kids are not expendable!
“Only very sick kids should die from measles.”
No. They shouldn’t. That was the point of the vaccine. We eradicated the virus so children didn’t die.
Sick & disabled kids are not expendable!
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In PLOS 🧪, discover AI-based data dredging, and health science paper mills fueled by on-demand misleading results at an industrial scale.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Explosion of formulaic research articles, including inappropriate study designs and false discoveries, based on the NHANES US national health database
The combination of AI and national health databases offers opportunities, but may also be exploited by unethical agents. This study shows that there has been an explosion of formulaic research article...
journals.plos.org
May 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
In PLOS 🧪, discover AI-based data dredging, and health science paper mills fueled by on-demand misleading results at an industrial scale.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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There is something refreshingly honest about moving the goalpost this blatantly. Adjusting for multiple testing? Not in my house ☝️
April 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
There is something refreshingly honest about moving the goalpost this blatantly. Adjusting for multiple testing? Not in my house ☝️
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If the NIH gets messed up, there is no alternative. Not just in the US, but globally. It is by far the biggest engine of health research in the world. Which is why the idea that US scientists can just do their work elsewhere is a little fanciful.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/politicizi...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/politicizi...
March 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
If the NIH gets messed up, there is no alternative. Not just in the US, but globally. It is by far the biggest engine of health research in the world. Which is why the idea that US scientists can just do their work elsewhere is a little fanciful.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/politicizi...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/politicizi...
Ég styð Magnús Karl sem rektor HÍ og hvet öll á kjörskrá að gera slíkt hið sama.
-HÍ þjónar samfélaginu með því að gera það sem hann á að gera vel: rannsóknir og kennsla
-Rektor þarf að hafa burði til að berjast fyrir skólann
-Magnús hefur spilað í efstu deild rannsókna, veit hvað þarf til
-HÍ þjónar samfélaginu með því að gera það sem hann á að gera vel: rannsóknir og kennsla
-Rektor þarf að hafa burði til að berjast fyrir skólann
-Magnús hefur spilað í efstu deild rannsókna, veit hvað þarf til
March 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Ég styð Magnús Karl sem rektor HÍ og hvet öll á kjörskrá að gera slíkt hið sama.
-HÍ þjónar samfélaginu með því að gera það sem hann á að gera vel: rannsóknir og kennsla
-Rektor þarf að hafa burði til að berjast fyrir skólann
-Magnús hefur spilað í efstu deild rannsókna, veit hvað þarf til
-HÍ þjónar samfélaginu með því að gera það sem hann á að gera vel: rannsóknir og kennsla
-Rektor þarf að hafa burði til að berjast fyrir skólann
-Magnús hefur spilað í efstu deild rannsókna, veit hvað þarf til
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Wow. "NIH" canceled my co-mentored (with Dave Sulzer) PhD student's F31 funding. His work is on understanding the genetics and neuroscience of language learning disorders. F31 provides no indirect $ to Columbia, just pays his salary. Not that it should matter, but he's an American citizen. W.T.F.
March 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Wow. "NIH" canceled my co-mentored (with Dave Sulzer) PhD student's F31 funding. His work is on understanding the genetics and neuroscience of language learning disorders. F31 provides no indirect $ to Columbia, just pays his salary. Not that it should matter, but he's an American citizen. W.T.F.