In a surprising twist in a recent Twitter conversation, @KordingLab had to admit (including to himself) that a particular #neuroscience paper was making invalid causal statements. Said he'd been blinded to it b/c so many he reads r like that. 1/
@KordingLab Instead of using the incident 2 educate on the impotence of correlation-fishing to indicate causal relationships, as he tried 2 do in his famous "microprocessor" paper, + Mehler and Kording (2018) + his 2017 Waterloo Brain Day lecture, he blocked me + deleted the tweets. 2/
@KordingLab In other words, as with other types of "woke" signalling, @KordingLab's woke signalling about correlational improprieties was just a cover for business as usual - his own and others. Like @russpoldrack, he gets to have it both ways.
