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recent bookmarks from jmCovid-19 and the new merchants of doubt2021-09-14T08:39:05+00:00
https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/09/13/covid-19-and-the-new-merchants-of-doubt/
jmHow best can scientists push back against [science denialists]? There is a range of evidence-based strategies. These include:
“Public inoculation”–warning people about the risk of being misled and drawing attention to who is pushing the contentious information and their financial competing interests;
Highlighting scientific consensus; and
Mapping the institutional networks who are pushing controversial information and then using political and legal strategies to counter them.
For physicians, scientists, and public health officials to be effective countering efforts like the [Great Barrington declaration], it will be absolutely critical for them to realize that they are not dealing with an orthodox scientific debate based on sound data and evidence, but a well-funded sophisticated science denialist campaign based on ideological and corporate interests.
]]>denialism climate-change covid-19 science communication astroturf fakes evidence fake-newshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7f0213363f87/The Impenetrable Program Transforming How Courts Treat DNA Evidence | WIRED2017-11-30T11:45:46+00:00
https://www.wired.com/story/trueallele-software-transforming-how-courts-treat-dna-evidence/
jmlaw justice trueallele software dna evidence statistics probability code-review auditinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:8b677ee89f88/Screen time guidelines need to be built on evidence, not hype | Science | The Guardian2017-06-15T13:36:15+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2017/jan/06/screen-time-guidelines-need-to-be-built-on-evidence-not-hype
jmIf the government were to implement guidelines on screen-based technology at this point, as the authors of the letter suggest, this would be on the basis of little to no evidence. This risks the implementation of unnecessary, ineffective or even potentially harmful policies. For guidelines to have a meaningful impact, they need to be grounded in robust research evidence and acknowledge that children’s health and wellbeing is a complex issue affected by many other factors, such as socioeconomic status, relational poverty, and family environment – all of which are likely to be more relevant for children’s health and well-being than screens. For example, there is no consistent evidence that more screen time leads to less outdoor play; if anything the evidence indicates that screen time and physical outdoor activity are unrelated, and reductions in average time spent in outdoor play over time seem to be driven by other factors. Policy efforts to increase outdoor play that focus on screen time are therefore likely to be ineffective.
(via Damien Mulley)]]>via:damienmulley science children psychology screens screen-time childhood development evidence policy health open-lettershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7cfff9c3415e/Placebo effects are weak: regression to the mean is the main reason ineffective treatments appear to work2015-12-16T14:17:36+00:00
http://www.dcscience.net/2015/12/11/placebo-effects-are-weak-regression-to-the-mean-is-the-main-reason-ineffective-treatments-appear-to-work/
jm“Statistical regression to the mean predicts that patients selected for abnormalcy will, on the average, tend to improve. We argue that most improvements attributed to the placebo effect are actually instances of statistical regression.”
]]>medicine science statistics placebo evidence via:hn regression-to-the-meanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:71de2897190c/Big Brother Watch on Twitter: "Anyone can legally have their phone or computer hacked by the police, intelligence agencies, HMRC and others #IPBill https://t.co/3ZS610srCJ"2015-12-14T11:52:35+00:00
https://twitter.com/bbw1984/status/675680272952651776
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