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Aug 9, 2020 • 38 tweets • 15 min read
This thread documents a persistent pattern of harassment against me. It gets tiring after a while defending why I've been speaking out against the behavior of this individual so I decided to document what's been going on.
This account has 140k+ followers. I blocked it in June but it has been creating posts with screenshots of my tweets. This has caused hundreds of trolls over the last five weeks to enter my comment sections and to tweet at people I interact with. Often their insults are racial.
As you read these posts, please consider that each one caused massive numbers of angry followers to seek out my account and harass me.
June 26. 8:52pm
June 26. 10:53pm
July 13 9:45pm
July 30 5:58pm
July 30. 8:55pm
July 30. 8:56pm
July 30. 8:57pm
July 30. 11:00pm
Aug 1. 9:46pm
Aug 1 9:54pm
Aug 1 10:14pm
Aug 1 11:19pm
Aug 1 11:23pm
Aug 2 8:40am
Aug 2 2:17pm
Aug 2 6:58pm
Aug 2 7:10pm
Aug 2 10:36pm
Aug 4. 8:26pm
Aug 4. 11:21pm
Aug 5. 12:41pm
Aug 5. 1:49pm
Aug 7. 12:53pm
Aug 7. 6:46pm
Aug 7. 8:02pm
Aug 8. 9:08am
When speaking to me directly, the animosity is more clear than in the tweets to the account's timeline. Note, I have never returned any insults. I replied by stating my scientific credentials and making technical arguments.
"You can't be this stupid, which means you're completely dishonest."
"You're a shocking embarrassment, and it's my absolute pleasure to expose you."
"You're coming from bullshitting."
"Tick-tock, dumbass"
People who express support for me are not safe either.

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Feb 10
Really great article by statistician @nataliexdean on how low-quality data are severely affecting the covid effort. nature.com/articles/d4158…
"One of the best ways the world has to get a clear view of COVID-19 is going underused. It’s time to exploit the power of random sampling."
Basically, a lot of the times, we have absolutely no clue what's going on with covid because of problems like undercounting or because our information is weeks out of date.
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Feb 6
If free speech means anything, then we ought to be able to use our voices to engage in rational debate, but also to be annoying or silly or frivolous, or to say the truth about how we really feel about others, even if it hurts feelings or damages reputations.
In this context, Joe Rogan should be able to say anything he wants even the n-word, but others should also be free to use their voices to impose a reputational cost on him and on Spotify for their odious speech.
Freedom of speech and freedom of association go hand in hand. People should be free to disassociate themselves from Rogan and from Spotify, not just because of what they say, but because of where they stand. We get to choose whom we stand with.
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Feb 6
I think the failures of the pandemic have exposed some cognitive biases in the science community.

We overestimate how much people care about avoiding death

We overestimate how much people care about other people

We overestimate how much people trust scientists
The main reason I think it must be some kind of cognitive bias is we seem to be having trouble absorbing this information no matter how much evidence we see for it.
I think the public has cognitive biases about scientists as well:

They underestimate how much we care about truth and our reputations as truth tellers

They overestimate how much we care about money and political power

They underestimate how much we care about others
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Feb 5
I get why the lab leak hypothesis is of geopolitical interest, but I don't get how it's important scientifically.
The question for me isn't "did covid come from a lab?" but rather, "is there anything about the severity of covid that's unique to a possible lab origin"?
If there isn't anything about a lab origin that could have contributed especially to covid's severity, then digging into a potential lab origin feels like a waste of time and goodwill, fighting over who to blame for the current crisis instead of working to avoid the next one.
And for what? I think there's a good chance that any evidence in that direction would be extremely messy and circumstantial, convincing to China's geopolitical rivals and unconvincing to its friends.
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Feb 4
Very interesting take from @StatModeling :
“The social sciences are useless. So why do we study them?”
He argues that the main benefit of good social science research is to push back against the bad social science that people would otherwise do.
I’m sympathetic to this argument. Social science does provide a strong pushback to amateurish analyses of race and gender related data for instance which are very common on social media.
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I think sometimes people are little too quick to claim that based on FACTS and LOGIC other people's risk preferences don't make sense.
For instance, I frequently see the claim that it's hypocritical or unreasonable to be willing to participate in a high-risk activity but then not be willing to participate in other lower risk activities.
The idea seems to be that a fully rational person would have some kind of fixed risk threshold. Below the risk threshold, the person would be willing to participate in the activity assuming it's something they find worth doing. Otherwise, they would decline.
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