Some napkin math shows those small correlations can fully explain the 50% rise in teen girl depression. chris-said.io/2022/05/10/s...
How a small correlation with social media can drive a 50% increase in teen depression
Are you a scientist with $10 million dollars lying around? If so, run this experiment! It would: - Conclusively establish the viral counts at which people become meaningfully infectious - Conclusively quantify the effectiveness of ventilation / masks chris-said.io/2024/02/11/t...
Given how hard it is to control unobservables, any maternal health study that doesn’t use a good instrument should probably be ignored until a better study arrives.
4. Antidepressants were linked to offspring Autism/ASD. But the effect goes away in a sibling control analysis. www.bmj.com/content/358/...
3. Infections during pregnancy were linked to ADHD and ASD. But when you look at infections 1 or 2 years *before* pregnancy, you see the same relationship. It must be spurious. www.cremieux.xyz/p/wanted-mor...
2. Epidurals were associated with ADHD and autism, even after covariate adjustment. But the effect disappears in sibling control studies. www.cremieux.xyz/p/wanted-mor...
Thread of questionable maternal health research that caused needless panic. 1. Breastfeeding was linked to higher offspring IQ. But the effect disappears in sibling control studies (same mother breastfeeds one child but not the other) toktopics.com/2023/03/24/w...
Half doses of Covid vaccines cause 20-30% lower side effects than full doses, while still producing just as many antibodies. Somebody needs to run this RCT with a 1/10 dose. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
God bless the CVS pharmacist who quietly agreed to give me a half dose of the Covid vaccine so I wouldn't get a fever for two days like I usually do.
Yet another prolific Alzheimer’s researcher accused of flagrant years-long fraud. Impossible to see these cases and not conclude fraud is endemic. www.science.org/content/arti...
