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Jack Lawrence
@JackMLawrence
Doing PhD on pancreatic cancer | Care about research integrity, free speech, democracy, magic | Troublemaker | “Well-trained in the dark arts” says Pierre Kory
Nov 9, 2022 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
It took me less than 25 minutes to set up a fake anonymous Apple ID using a VPN and disposable email, attach a masked debit card to it (with the address being Twitter's HQ), and get a verified account for a prominent figure. Just think what a nation-state or bad actor could do... Twitter wants to pass the verification steps off to Apple and card providers but Apple didn't check a single detail and you can easily find disposable cards with no links to you or even stolen/hacked card details if you're a particularly malicious actor. The policy is unworkable
Nov 7, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
While this is likely the only solution to the issue it does rub up against Musk’s other commitment to hew closely to US speech laws. US courts have consistently held that parodic speech does not need to be marked as such to obtain protection (as the mark may undermine the parody) You can’t really lay claim to being a free speech warrior who sticks closely to the law if you immediately censor any speech which you find commercially inconvenient or personally irritating.?
Oct 20, 2022 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
Over the past 5ish years hundreds of publications have put out almost identical articles about a magical 'military method' for falling asleep. All claim the trick works on 96% of people (or similar)

Turns out the stat is incredibly dodgy - let me explain why in this thread. 1/? I'm sure the claim has been floating around online for longer, but the earliest record I could find for it was in this medium article from July 2018. This piece isn't the origin of the claim, though. For that, we'll have to read a book (see below). 2/? medium.com/s/story/combat…
Aug 14, 2022 • 33 tweets • 8 min read
~90% of the global data on molnupiravir is currently unpublished. Serious questions exist about parts of the rest, & no one seems to care. During the Tamiflu scandal people were rightly furious that 60% of the data was unpublished but it seems like we've learned nothing.

Thread: Key point:
A large chunk of the missing molnipiravur data is in India where generics manufacturers launched 12 trials of the drug. Despite initial excitement, things have since gone silent. I co-authored a preprint summarising those trials here:
researchsquare.com/article/rs-191…