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17 Apr, 5 tweets, 2 min read
I can answer this one. The study is not a peer reviewed or from a major university. It’s a textbook example of a dodgy source. Let me explain.
It was easy to find the url for the study because anti-vax and conspiracy theory Twitter has gone wild for it.
It’s by someone called Baruch Vainshelboim. He seems to be a sports physiologist with some link to Stanford. But the publication in which his work appears is not peer-reviewed, and it has weird spelling mistakes and footnotes with no page refs.
And here it is, cited in a classroom example of how to teach people to spot dubious scientific research on the internet. amgenbiotechexperience.com/seeing-not-nec…
So I think this why you were given a short ban. You misrepresented some random article on the internet as a Stanford peer-reviewed study, which Twitter probably counts as medical misinformation. Now you know this you can issue a correction to your 125k followers

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11 Dec 20
The Carry Ons will be rightly prominent in the obits today, but I want to think of Barbara Windsor like this today, as key member of Joan Littlewood’s revolution in theatre. In 2014 I met with her at Stratford East to discuss her part in Oh What a Lovely War!
We talked about taking the play to New York, how she gave free tickets to the Quakers holding a vigil in Times Square for the victims of the war in Vietnam. Here she is with Littlewood arriving at the airport.
We also talked about Michael Gove, who had written about the play in the Daily Mail as a “prime source of left wing myths” that reflected “the unhappy compulsion ... to denigrate virtues such as patriotism, honour and courage.”
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17 Oct 19
Something happened today I’ll remember forever. A discussion on dictatorship for @BBCFreeThinking. This is Francesca Santoro L’hoir. Born 1933. As a little girl she acted with Chaplin in The Great Dictator. Could you read the last speech for us, I asked? She did. Devastatingly.
Here she is on the set with Chaplin, and in her scene in the movie as Aggie.
You can hear her talking tonight with another starry cast - @ETemelkuran @peterpomeranzev and Frank Dikotter - about old dictators and new authoritarians. Goes out 10pm tonight. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
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4 Oct 19
So as we’re all here, puzzling over the moment an apparent LaRouche activist used Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal to troll @AOC, it might be a good moment for me to list Lyndon LaRouche’s ten most insane conspiracy theories, just so it’s clear who they are.
1) The Queen controls the international drugs trade, to fund the British Empire, which still rules the world in secret.
2) The Queen, Obama and the Duke of Edinburgh plotted to reduce the world’s population to 1 billion by starting a nuclear war. (Obama very much the junior partner in this.)
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4 Oct 19
It’s that moment when your obscure research subject pops up in the news. Yesterday @AOC was confronted by a woman claiming to be a climate activist at a town hall meeting. Her proposal to solve the climate crisis - “eat the babies”.
. @AOC did not denounce this woman. She thought that she was suffering from some kind of mental illness, and treated her kindly. But all kinds of figures on the right and the alt-right have pounced on the story. Including the President.
So who was this woman? Not a climate activist. Not even, perhaps, someone with a mental illness. She is a representative of the bizarre political cult once led by Lyndon LaRouche. Previous targets for this kind of stunt include @Janefonda Olof Palme & Michael Dukakis. Now @AOC.
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23 May 19
Because my thoughts on @naomirwolf's @ViragoBooks Outrages are scattered in threads, and I'm being asked about details, I thought I would put them all in one place. Hope everyone thinks this is okay. You'll find our @BBCFreeThinking interview here. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
For the record: Outrages says that the Victorians executed men for having sex with each other. This is a big claim that goes against every history of the subject I have read, and it is wrong. No Victorian man was ever executed for sodomy.
What I thought I would do is pick a short passage from the book (pp. 71-2) and go through it in detail. @naomirwolf is taking a second look at her work, and, I think, with great generosity, has offered to share her findings as she goes. This is pretty decent of her, I think.
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