Wild that “accidentally fired a large portion of the CDC” is going to be a minor footnote in the history of this administration

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This has been fundamental to Republican ideology literally my entire life as a politically aware entity.

Oh yes the MAGA folks certainly don’t want that.

This is why we don’t truncate Y-axes.

Unironically this is how I feel most of the time and I don’t even live there anymore.

Never has an article been more written by AI.

I’d argue that’s exactly what free speech is.

In addition to being truly a giant in the field, Drummond also is the source for one of my favorite 2 slide transitions I've ever put in a talk. It shows the rapid change in sentiment on clinical trial registration in the early 2000s (in the wake of the Paroxetine scandal).

Insane this garbage still gets published.

He is, without a doubt, one of the dumbest and most consistently wrong people I ever have the displeasure of seeing regularly pop up in my feeds.

I'd also like to add, in addition to those things Steve over here mentioned, Mr. Kirk was also armed with literally millions of dollars of backing for his organisation since he was like 17.

Can’t make up their mind as to if social media censorship is good or not.

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An interesting thing indeed considering I just got back from a conference they run on research integrity and peer review.

So @maclomaclee.bsky.social had a slide here saying that only 2 plenaries at this conference ID’d an issue, proposed intervention, randomized and preregistered.

Funny enough I am an author on both. Gotta walk the walk.

Not a lawyer but I don’t think that’s a legal authority…

Yet another example of original authors being allowed to say anything they want in replies to critiques unconstrained by verifiable facts.

Reply states we didn’t consider things we explicitly did, and says the original article never said things it explicitly did.

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this is genuinely baffling to me. $80k a year to help a professional writer produce one 800-word column a week?

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