Scott Yates, #LockTheClock

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@SaltyDrave @JamesCr05 By the way, if you have any studies (not position statements) that support your point of view that I have not linked to on that page, please let me know.

@SaltyDrave @JamesCr05 I like this study because it's helpful and informative. I link to it -- and to the studies that agree with your point of view -- here: sco.tt/time/research.… I think ALL the science should be considered.

This is going to put a serious dent in the argument that permanent Standard Time is healthier. This is the biggest and most comprehensive study ever on overall mortality, and it is very clear that DST saves lives. nature.com/articles/s4146…

@JamesCr05 @SaltyDrave James, I'm really not sure why you are so dismissive of the 9 scientists and countless other reviewers who have published very clear evidence in one of the most prestigious scientific journals in the world.

@lock_the_clock @SaltyDrave Daylight Saving Time is correlated with more sunshine, more smiles, and fewer deaths! Eating ice cream is also correlated with an elevated risk of drowning. If Standard Time lasted from March to November, the links that you noticed would reverse. Correlation is not causation.

@SaltyDrave @JamesCr05 And another 8 weeks of worse mortality in ST. There's no way that 2 months of people dying at increased rates in the fall is because of _gaining_ an hour of sleep one night. It's being in ST time that increases mortality.

@SaltyDrave @JamesCr05 That's because this is a scientific research report, not a position paper. And it is not saying the transitions are the cause of mortality, thought it does note that other studies have shown that. The data shows 8 weeks of improved mortality in DST...

@SaltyDrave @JamesCr05 I'm not a scientist, but I think that's because it's a negative regression model. The words, however, are clear: "DST is linked with a significant decrease in general mortality in spring ... as well as a significant increase in the fall..."

@lock_the_clock @JamesCr05 Are you looking at the same graph I am? Deaths go up (compared with baseline) after DST goes into affect

@JamesCr05 You really might want to read at least a little of the study before you describe it incorrectly: "Weather conditions, which can be important confounding factors, as they can greatly alter daily mortality rates when significant enough, have been taken into account."

@lock_the_clock Cooler weather, not Standard Time, causes increased mortality rates. Interestingly, the recorded deaths exceed the predictions of the polynomial models following the spring time change, whereas the opposite effect is observed after the switch to Standard Time.

@mgarr_aha Let us know what they say.

@mgarr_aha Also this: "After adjusting for temporal, meteorological, geographic, country-specific, and population variables, our findings point to a significant increase in mortality in the first and second week after the DST fall transition."

@mgarr_aha I was confused by that, too, and had to read further to make sure what I was saw in the graphs was right: "Our results indicate for the first time that DST is linked with a significant decrease in general mortality in spring ... as well as a significant increase in the fall..."

Not sure if I'll end up on Mastodon or here: post.news/?r=dTSLw I'll try both for a while. Feel free to join me in either one or both!

@UglyAmerican @pat_kingsley The Daily Show called me a Time Wizard. It's probably all I can hope for. 🧙‍♂️🪄

@lock_the_clock @pat_kingsley No kings but we have plenty of czars in the federal government. Or get the UK to back you and be a time lord. That would be cool.

This solution doesn’t make any sense. What does “no change” mean? Does that mean those regions keep switching clocks? If so, that goes against your whole “lock the clock” philosophy. Adding to that, this isn’t politically feasible by any stretch of the imagination.

By the way, this plays in to the theory that I've had for a while, that Big TV is behind the efforts to force us to keep changing the clock. sco.tt/time/2020/02/b…

It used to be that all the DST humor was just before or after the change. Now it's all year long! youtube.com/watch?v=hD4fJG… I hate to deprive the world of the jokes, but I still think it's worth it to #LockTheClock

@finefinefox Jay, (this is clearly you using one of your many fake accounts), you don't need to be a scientist to see that DST causes fewer deaths for 7 weeks, and ST causes more deaths for 8 weeks. You don't need to be a scientist to know that "acute" is not two months!

@AASMorg @AmerMedicalAssn I wonder if this new study nature.com/articles/s4146… will lead to revisiting this topic the next time?

While the U.S. Senate voted to establish permanent daylight saving time, @AmerMedicalAssn’s House of Delegates is instead recommending a permanent change to standard time. #StandardTime is healthier and more natural, according to the AMA and the AASM. bit.ly/3TFspKK

@BethAnnMalow @Tennessean @VUMC_Insights @VUMCneurology I for sure agree with you about Tennessee, and said so recently: twitter.com/lock_the_clock… The hard part would be convincing people in New England and a bunch of the other states on the eastern sides of their time zones.

my op-ed on the clock change. All-year standard time is healthier than daylight saving time or changing clocks | Opinion tennessean.com/story/opinion/… via @tennessean @VUMC_Insights @VUMCneurology