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The Case for Free-Range Lab Mice
🧵 A thread based on my @NewYorker story🧵
newyorker.com/culture/annals…
🧵 A thread based on my @NewYorker story🧵
newyorker.com/culture/annals…
No-one knows how many mice & rats are experimented on in the US, bc even tho' they are the most common species used in biomedicine, thanks to Sen. Jesse Helms, rodents are officially excluded from the Animal Welfare Act.
It’s estimated @ 120 million/yr.
tinyurl.com/47awxv4s
It’s estimated @ 120 million/yr.
tinyurl.com/47awxv4s
Experiments on animals are required by law and bioethics codes, but in a 2014 analysis of 2,000+ drugs, animal tests were found to be “highly inconsistent” predictors of toxic effects in humans.
You might as well toss a coin instead.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…
You might as well toss a coin instead.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…
Peter Thiel: "I’d rather be seen as evil than incompetent." It's the far-right billionaire's most telling phrase. Thiel wants us to think he's an evil genius, because he wants us to think he's a genius. 1/ 
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
pluralistic.net/2022/07/28/des… 2/
pluralistic.net/2022/07/28/des… 2/
So much of Thiel's activity is self-mythologizing, like when he made us think he was infusing teenagers' blood to become immortal:
vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/p…
But as @BenBurgis writes for @Jacobin, Thiel isn't an evil genius, "he's just a rich guy":
jacobin.com/2022/07/peter-… 3/
vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/p…
But as @BenBurgis writes for @Jacobin, Thiel isn't an evil genius, "he's just a rich guy":
jacobin.com/2022/07/peter-… 3/
🎙 @fourbeerspod Two psychologists, one having published several studies on meditation, discuss the state of research.
Spoiler: thousands of studies and decades of work have found pretty much nothing, partly but not only for #replicationcrisis reasons.
fourbeers.fireside.fm/27
Spoiler: thousands of studies and decades of work have found pretty much nothing, partly but not only for #replicationcrisis reasons.
fourbeers.fireside.fm/27
@fourbeerspod For decades, I’ve been criticized for being too cynical and skeptical about scientific practice.
History shows I’m never cynical and skeptical enough.
The very first post on my Buddhist blog was embarrassingly credulous: vividness.live/2011/04/25/tra…
History shows I’m never cynical and skeptical enough.
The very first post on my Buddhist blog was embarrassingly credulous: vividness.live/2011/04/25/tra…
@fourbeerspod In my defense, a year and a half later, in 2012 (before the replication crisis! I am a prophet), I expressed *some* skepticism:
vividness.live/2012/09/13/epi…
vividness.live/2012/09/13/epi…
It's official, the Review of Economic Studies does not accept comment papers (unless they point out actual factual errors), according to my correspondence with an editor. In important ways, it's not really an academic journal. @RevEconStud #EconTwitter #EconReplicationCrisis
This isn't hard. If the RESTud doesn't accept comment papers, then people who do publish there now have an incentive to sneak papers past the referees which are obviously flawed. And people don't have incentive to replicate papers, since they cannot be published. #EconTwitter
It's no mystery why the editorial board refuses to accept comment papers. The benefit of being an editor is not the pride one takes in leaving one's intellectual stamp on the field, but rather the benefit one gets from giving favors to powerful people in the field. #Econtwitter
I am embarking on my own #PaperPerDayChallenge where I read at least one paper, well, per day for a whole year. To kick start, nature.com/articles/43573… inspired by @ukrepro Reproducibility Workshop @CumberlandLodge and a talk by @MarcusMunafo
Paper #2: Hard not be cynical about advocates of reproducibile science given most have careers built on the very questionable practices they wish to stamp out, so great to see @russpoldrack tackling this head on and offering great advice along the way 👍 ac.els-cdn.com/S0896627318310…
Paper #3 - false positives from multiple testing in anovas and importance of distinguishing exploratory and confirmatory hypotheses — also I thought anovas corrected for Multiple testing and this paper shows so too do many others, I’m not the only idiot! link.springer.com/content/pdf/10…
