This post does a nice job summarizing a recent meta-analysis of lockdown studies. If you’re not familiar with meta-analyses, they are a study of studies: researchers gather a group of studies an area, like lockdowns, and statistically analyze the collective results. This helps us understand what the field really knows, rather than relying on that one study that was trumpeted by the media...
Stanford U student cyclists wear masks but not helmets!
Via Tyler Cowen, : In April of this year, I witnessed something on the Stanford campus that will be seared into my memory forever: a student on a bicycle, wearing flip-flops, AirPods in ear, going the wrong way through a roundabout in an active construction zone, with no helmet. But like any good follower of science, the student was wearing a disposable blue face mask -- for safety, I guess. I...
Ioannidis: COVID hysteria is ruining science
Ioannidis is a fascinating guy: years ago he showed that half of all medical research is wrong. You can read more about him in this Atlantic profile; here is his latest: Nevertheless, despite the cynical realization that the methodological norms of science had been neglected (or perhaps because of this realization), voices struggling for more communalism, universalism, disinterestedness, and...