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Apr 24 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
In 2016, researchers found that the minority-White wage gap was overestimated by about 10% because, at work, non-Whites tended to partake in more leisure, waiting around, etc.

They delayed releasing the study out of fear Trump would "use it as a propaganda piece." Image
They explicitly admitted that they let their personal politics get in the way of releasing a study with contentious but correct findings.

That doesn't inspire trust, but at the same time, given the topic, it might!
This isn't the worst example of scientists hurting the public for political reasons.

More infamously, this guy stopped the release of the COVID vaccines to prevent Trump from winning re-election in 2020, killing tens of thousands in the process. Image
Sometimes the stakes of politics in science are tens of thousands of totally innocent people, and sometimes the stakes are that the public isn't supplied a data point in favor of the 'lazy Mexican' stereotype in a prompt manner (or maybe at all? Who knows what's unpublished!)
These sorts of things are examples that speak to my desire for massive shake-up. Politics shouldn't matter whatsoever for science. There's no good reason for it to, and plenty of reasons for it not to.

Sources:

economist.com/united-states/…

technologyreview.com/2020/10/19/101…

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Apr 25
Why have autism rates risen over time?🧵

I have just put out an article dealing with numerous misconceptions about this topic, and a complete explanation of why autism diagnoses have become more common.

It starts with acknowledging that more kids are diagnosed than in the past: Image
But this is misleading for a few reasons.

One has to do with how this data was sourced. We didn't have a DSM with autism in it before 1980, so all the oldest people in this cohort were diagnosed as adults.

Adults are underdiagnosed. Go out of your way to diagnose? Same rates.Image
So something is off about this graph.

A major issue is that the older diagnoses here were done under a more arbitrary criteria: Autism has only been a described thing since Kanner's studies in 1943 and mass diagnosis kicked off in 1980.

Before 1980, diagnosis was often crazy:Image
Read 16 tweets
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Apr 23
Aspartame?

What is it? Where is it from? What does it do? Is it harmful? What do health agencies think of it?

And why might the HHS be planning to ban it from American food?

Here's the aspartame review thread🧵 Image
Aspartame is a sugary sweet synthetic molecule that's 200 times sweeter than sucrose.

More than half of the world's supply comes from Ajinomoto of Tokyo, better known for bringing the world MSG. Image
Because aspartame is so sweet, a little bit goes a long way.

The high levels of sweetness contained in very small quantities of aspartame make it ideal for making super low-calorie diet drinks like Diet Coke. Image
Read 34 tweets
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Apr 22
When you match different American ethnoracial groups on socioeconomic status, the known differences in intelligence still persist. Image
This shows up in many datasets and persists whether using measures of parental or attained socioeconomic status:
This difference after SES stratification can be understood in dramatic terms.

For example, Asians with parents who merely graduated high school tend to be smarter than Blacks whose parents have graduate degrees.

Read 6 tweets
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Apr 20
I don't think Bernie realizes what he's asking for🧵

The Bennett Hypothesis holds that universities alter their prices to capture additional funding that becomes available to students.

When Grad PLUS loans rolled out, the most exposed programs jacked up prices more: Image
If you want to "fix" this situation within reason, you need to cut funding.

Doing that has disproportionately negative impacts for the educations of people from socioeconomically worse off backgrounds. Or in other words, it hurts upward educational mobility for the poor.
Or, you could provide this presidential administration with a gift:

Centralize the universities and have the government more directly control all the funding. Make them "free".

This is far more likely than alternatives like 'Just give universities infinite money', but still bad
Read 4 tweets
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Apr 16
Compared to twenty years ago, kids are eating some types of ultraprocessed foods more and some types less🧵

For example, one thing there's proportionally less of is sugar-sweetened beverage consumption. Meanwhile, there's relatively greater sweet snack consumption. Image
Overall, the ultraprocessed food (UPF) consumption share is up across young ages to similar degrees.

The increase is definitely there, but it isn't dramatic. For example, going from 61% to 67.5% is an 11% increase in twenty years. Image
The increase in consumption is not differentiated by the sex of children.

In other words, boys and girls are both eating a bit more ultraprocessed food. Image
Read 14 tweets
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Apr 16
Today the President has provided an outline for the direction of medication pricing over the next four years.

This is related to broader deregulatory efforts that are likely going to end up making Americans a lot better off🧵 Image
The executive order starts off by noting the administration's efforts to reduce drug prices the first time around.

These efforts were centered around deregulation and promoting transparency in the concentrated, often-cartelized and captured healthcare marketplace. Image
A few days ago, an opinion piece by @ezraklein went out in the @nytimes.

It described how people in the Biden administration wished that they'd just gone a little faster.

It's good they believe this, because it's true: they went very slowly.Image
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