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Link was more informative when the domain was andrewgelman.com
by harry8 6y ago
Link was more informative when the domain was andrewgelman.com
- lonelappde 6y agohttps://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/05/25/this-controversial-hydroxychloroquine-paper-whats-lancet-gonna-do-about-it/ https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/05/25/this-contr... Edit: Gelman has posted 3 articles on this topic in the past 2 days. (The guy is prolific! He also publishes about 1 paper per month over his decades long career) Tangents: What is all this? > The beauty-and-sex-ratio research, the ovulation-and-voting research, embodied cognition, himmicanes, ESP, air rage, Bible Code, the celebrated work of Andrew Wakefield, the Evilicious guy, the gremlins dude—all peer-reviewed.
- harry8 6y agoLaundry list of utterly bogus papers that were published and not retracted or not due years where the authors probabky also doubled down on un-reproduceable garbage. Wakefield published papers on the link between vaccines and autism, do example (I believe, mercifully not familiar with it),
- harry8 6y agoThe point being that Andrew Gelman doesn't seem to have an agenda. The Lancet paper looks unconvincing to him and his gang of stats nerds who read and post there. The WHO are convinced, however. Should they be given the data is closed and appears suspect. (Maybe it isn't, but how do we know that for sure, when it looks really odd..?) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/25/who-world-health-organization-hydroxychloroquine-trial-trump-coronavirus-safety-fears https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/25/who-world-heal...