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@ArthurCDent @aryehazan @tracewoodgrains @ErikN_NJEdition He’s complaining about a psych screening that seems lame but hasn’t been used in 8 years. And you still had to take the atsa then too. It has a 95% pass rate and military don’t even have to take the test. So pretending like they just rank people based on a basic screener is 🙄

@aryehazan @tracewoodgrains @ErikN_NJEdition Yeah this is all very normal and usual for a properly documented news story, including the emotional reaction right there. There may well be something to it, so write it up and document it properly like a grown adult. Or pass it along to a professional who can.

So, Trump’s sweeping cuts to aviation safety probably had nothing to do with the collision. But it’s certainly a far more plausible cause than “DEI”

@DeryaTR_ How would you avoid tolerance?

😳GPT-4o’s thinking mode (+o1?) just came up with a very cool idea that neither o1 alone nor even o1-Pro had thought of before! (Nor DeepSeek!) I’m only sharing the concept of this idea #4 because I’m integrating rest into a cancer immunotherapy proposal I’m working on right now!

@jsharpe2023 @ksjfdiewn332444 @lionel_trolling Hopefully not. Just I didn’t find anything in her writing to be assuring. I find the reasoning well just don’t bring it before the courts and if someone is concerned enough that’s enough for us. Seems like something that went through such a big process of amendment should not be

@SciencePartisan @ksjfdiewn332444 @lionel_trolling Even then, I highly highly doubt they interpret the way he wants them too. It’s clear as day in the texts. There no interpreting that. They can try. But I don’t think it works.

Amy Comy Barrett wrote that the 14th Amendment is "possibly illegitimate" in case you are wondering how a birthright citizenship decision might go

@jsharpe2023 @ksjfdiewn332444 @lionel_trolling Right. She’s not actively saying she would overturn those. Just saying why she wouldn’t. But that is not the case anymore as Trump will bring those issues before the court.

@SciencePartisan @ksjfdiewn332444 @lionel_trolling x.com/astoraaron/sta… my good Twitter friend Aaron put it in these terms. Which makes sense

@AstorAaron @RaginMode But then read her reasoning for why it wouldn’t work for her kind of originalism. That there shouldn’t be anyone with standing to bring it before the court and if there was then that would indicate it wasn’t a super precedent anymore. Starting on page 19

@RaginMode She doesn't seem to be actually saying 14A is illegitimate. She's posing an argument from a particular version of extreme originalism (which also claims that West Virginia is illegitimate).

Excellent

@jsharpe2023 @ksjfdiewn332444 @lionel_trolling I would have assumed that as well. She’s the one who cited the 14th amendment as causing problems for originalists though, indicating they could be on the table as well. And that the solution was just not to bring cases before the court. You can read what she wrote.

@SciencePartisan @ksjfdiewn332444 @lionel_trolling That doesn’t make sense if that’s her point. Cause it’s an amendment. Not a federal law.

@jsharpe2023 @ksjfdiewn332444 @lionel_trolling She’s saying she’s not arguing to without someone with standing coming in front of the court. And if someone comes in front of the court then overturning it should be considered bc it is no longer a super precedent.

@ksjfdiewn332444 @SciencePartisan @lionel_trolling So you’re saying she’s not arguing to actually overturn it?

@notistotny @lionel_trolling The citation she uses is that the south were under an illegal military occupation and only ratified it to stop an illegal occupation……it’s 😬

@lionel_trolling How can Amendment be illegitimate??! It IS the Constitution

@Rebecca21951651 @DavidBahry Just because one sensible thing is said doesn’t mean the whole argument is sensible. But retract proximal origin in your bio kinda gives the game away for what you consider sensible.

@SciencePartisan @DavidBahry My quotes are from the article and they seem sensible to me. It's a very good article. Thanks for sharing it. I support it 100%

@Rebecca21951651 @DavidBahry Saying elderly people are more susceptible was not the controversial part. It was assume you’ve had it and vaccinating is more dangerous. Which some of vaccination strategy in limited supply is focused on high contact people who can quickly amplify spread.

@Rebecca21951651 @DavidBahry I did read it. He argued that the majority of people in India had natural immunity and that there were more harms than benefits to people with natural immunity. This is despite very low testing in India compared to other countries for people to know whether they’d been infected.

@SashaGusevPosts Yes I think too many people misunderstand and pushback on “correlation doesn’t mean causation” with “obviously causation is heavily suggested and more so the more n’s”. But forget that mechanism of causation and direction it goes can’t just be filled with whatever story they want

The emphasis on mechanisms and the fundamental limitations of non-randomized studies is, of course, worth keeping in mind in all fields and beyond science. It seems to be a basic human urge to elevate correlations into causes as long as there's enough "data" to point at.

I wrote about Eric Turkheimer's recent book on "the nature-nurture debate", which should be of interest to people thinking not just about the genetics of behavior but complex traits more broadly. A short 🧵:

@_colourmeamused She should have stayed and just let loose a bunch on this rfk jr nomination. No need to pretend these are good, respectable decisions.

Update on that.

jfc she’s still going on Sometimes leadership is just shutting the hell up and carrying on, and it’s the best thing you can do for your workplace too.

The account looked legitimate. They are a paying account (I’ve never seen a bot that pays). They’ve been on the platform for over 2 years. They have 52 followers, some of whom I recognize, and they compulsively repost interesting science posts (including some of mine). 3/

@lovingtaeonmain @SolidEvidence What’s the end game? Like hoping people give out info or just a scam link?

@SolidEvidence Happening w artists on here too

I knew there were a lot of fake accounts on this platform, but they are usually obvious. I had no idea how intricate and complex the ruse could be. Get a load of this story. 1/

@arijitchakrav @SolidEvidence @chaz_hong @arthur_courtin @OlzmannLab @Minnie644045 @BakerLabMS @CMichaelGibson @DrSaba @coxsarah789 @kevinoleary677 @sycd84 @kellyxugu @ForsbergLab @TurnewTqwbWbb Oh yeah that sounds like the weird phishing scammy texts. Wonder if it’s be the same sort of thing where eventually they send you a bad link to click. Except a more sophisticated version

@SciencePartisan @SolidEvidence @chaz_hong @arthur_courtin @OlzmannLab @Minnie644045 @BakerLabMS @CMichaelGibson @DrSaba @coxsarah789 @kevinoleary677 @sycd84 @kellyxugu @ForsbergLab @TurnewTqwbWbb This is what I got from “her”. Looked super sketchy and obviously not a native English speaker, which is discordant with the profile.

@SolidEvidence @ipattorneyliza Yeah I think the biggest tell here is no PhD student in a research field is going to have a 2nd job as a research scientist, especially in something so vague as “uncovering mysteries”.

@ipattorneyliza But the people that follow her are all legit and several of them also follow me. I don't follow a lot of people so there wasn't anything about it that seemed weird to me at the time. Lots of people use goofy/fake profile pics.

@arijitchakrav @SolidEvidence @chaz_hong @arthur_courtin @OlzmannLab @Minnie644045 @BakerLabMS @CMichaelGibson @DrSaba @coxsarah789 @kevinoleary677 @sycd84 @kellyxugu @ForsbergLab @TurnewTqwbWbb Did she have the same sort of vague ask about your research wrapping up?

@SolidEvidence @chaz_hong @arthur_courtin @OlzmannLab @Minnie644045 @BakerLabMS @CMichaelGibson @DrSaba @coxsarah789 @kevinoleary677 @sycd84 @kellyxugu @ForsbergLab @TurnewTqwbWbb “She” reached out to me. The profile looked suspicious, and I don’t DM unless there’s a clear Covid-related request. I ignored her.