This will be a 🧵 gathering England demographic and COVID data.

Please let me know if you have better sources and/or other timeseries that can be of help.

Also, if you are good at coding simulations, and want to help with the next step of this project, see tweet below:
Vaccination rates by age:
Age/gender distribution: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demograph…
Cases by age group (starting sep 2020, would be good to have something starting earlier)
Deaths by age cohort. gov.uk/government/pub…
BMI by gender over time (would be nice to find by age cohort but seen nothing yet)

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18 Oct
I've been hinting in various conversations about a distributed news aggregator design I've been sitting on for about a decade or so. I'll describe it here so I have somewhere to point to, for feedback, and if I never get a chance to build it, maybe it will inspire someone else.🧵
My quest begun with writing this paper back in 2009. We didn't know about the bitcoin white paper that had gotten released a months earlier, but we sketched out several pieces of what came out of the crypto ecosystem over the next dozen years. arxiv.org/abs/0907.2485
The obvious weakness was governance in the human layer. So long as moderation of any community can't be distributed, all the distributed infrastructure in the world won't help you when your Admins with God Powers get subjected to rubber hose cryptanalysis. h-i-r.net/2009/02/rubber…
Read 31 tweets
17 Oct
Ok people, let's crowdsource it -

Fact check this article:
I started off one on the TOGETHER trial being mischaracterized:
Read 8 tweets
17 Oct
A preliminary analysis we did. Image
A few details that are worth mentioning:

1. This was done as a response to *someone* claiming that there was no temporal relationship between vaccination and adverse events
2. We have removed j&j as it's single shot
3. The data is up to a cutoff date I will try to find precisely
4. There is about 15% more dose 1s administered, but the delta is closer to 50%.
5. As always, this is VAERS data and therefore not necessarily causal
6. That said, comparing dose 1 to dose 2 is a VAERS to VAERS comparison, so hard to know why there would be such a difference
Read 10 tweets
15 Oct
Journal Editors as Establishment Special Forces. 🧵

How many cases of editors pulling or rejecting controversial papers that have made it through peer review have we seen recently?

There's the Rose/McCullough paper:
There's "The mechanisms of action of Ivermectin against SARS-CoV-2: An evidence-based clinical review article" by Asiya Kamber Zaidi & Puya Dehgani-Mobaraki that was pulled by the editor... nature.com/articles/s4142… Image
There's Tess Lawrie's meta-analysis which got rejected by the Lancet AFTER passing peer review, costing months of delay until it passed review again at a different journal. The interview video where she described the events has been pulled down...
Read 6 tweets
14 Oct
I've never really answered the critics of @BetterSkeptics first challenge in one place, so I should probably write this down so I can refer people to it in the future. 🧵
The criticism that has been coming our way should have been somewhat expected, given that in any sensemaking exercise where there's significant disagreement, someone will feel like their side was not fairly represented. That said, it may well be that they were right. Let's see:
Before we get into it, it's important to explain that the main audience for the result of the challenge was myself. Having found the Quillette criticism to be of poor quality, I wanted to see what the *strongest* criticism would possibly be, as I don't want to believe falsehoods.
Read 25 tweets
14 Oct
The Mysterious Case of Sam Harris 🧵

A big reason pulling me into this whole debate around the pandemic is being baffled by behaviors of people like Sam. Having had high esteem for him, it was important to me to "unpack" our disagreement, to make sure I haven't lost my mind.
I started by doing a comment thread on his podcast with Eric Topol, which, as you will discover, left me deeply unsatisfied.
That was, it turns out, a bad start, as he ended up calling me out in his AMA 17, never having spoken to me before and ended up completely straw-manning my argument. Completely out of character for the Sam Harris of old.
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