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Apr 21, 2021 8 tweets 3 min read
1/ This video has been used repeatedly to suggest Bill Gates wants to deal w/ overpopulation, in part, by vaccinating more people. That part is actually correct. What is not true is that he meant anything at all like what anti-vaccine folks think he meant. A short thread... 2/ Similarly, images such as the one below have been shared which again misconstrue what Gates meant by his statements about vaccination and population growth.
Mar 31, 2021 10 tweets 4 min read
1/ The real immigration crisis at our borders isn’t that we are letting in too many people. It’s that we haven’t realized the economic implications of letting in too few. ImageImage 2/ Following mainstream media outlets provides only a surface level understanding of the impact of immigration on the U.S. economy. We need to dig deeper. budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2016/1/…
Jul 17, 2020 20 tweets 6 min read
1/ I am having trouble with this one. news.yahoo.com/german-study-f… 2/ I believe schools in this region of Germany reopened at the beginning of May. If so, not much time went by before they tested for antibodies. Was this enough time to give a true reflection of the risk of an outbreak?
Oct 6, 2018 14 tweets 6 min read
Those wondering how #Kavanaugh got confirmed today will not be surprised to learn that, in many ways, our government fails to represent us. You may have seen this meme. But it is worse than you think. More data in the thread below. #Elections2018 #Election2018 Image Today, women make up roughly 51% of the U.S. population but control just 23% of the Senate and 19% of the House. Image