Jeffrey Flier
Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Higginson Professor of Physiology and Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Formerly Dean of HMS.
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Scientific petitions and open letters in the era of covid-19
Vote counting is a faulty method of scientific inference, argues John Ioannidis
Petitions and open letters signed by large numbers of scientists are not new, but they have proliferated in the covid-19 era.12 They have a clear role when it comes to...
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Jeffrey Flier
Scientific petitions and open letters in the era of covid-19 | insightful contribution from John Ioannidis. The BMJ.
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Why Fourteen Critics of "Social Justice" Think You Shouldn't Vote for Trump - Areo
People will always disagree on who to vote for. People may have all kinds of reasons for choosing a particular candidate—but they almost never deliberately choose badly because they are…View Post
Association between consumption of vegetables and COVID-19 mortality at a country level in Europe
Background Many foods have an antioxidant activity, and nutrition may mitigate COVID-19. To test the potential role of vegetables in COVID-19 mortality in Europe, we performed an ecological study. Methods The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)...
The Swedish COVID-19 Response Is a Disaster. It Shouldn’t Be A Model for the Rest of the World
Sweden's unique approach to the pandemic has drawn interest from other countries. But the data are clear: it's largely been a failure.
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Jeffrey Flier
This take on the Swedish COVID-19 Response, if accurate, is quite troubling on many levels.
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Colleges Slash Budgets in the Pandemic, With ‘Nothing Off-Limits’
Liberal arts departments, graduate student aid and even tenured teaching positions are targets as the coronavirus causes shortfalls.
Hate Wokeness? Vote Biden.
Removing the president from office should be a top priority for any voter who is genuinely concerned about the rise of illiberal forces.
Jeffrey Flier
If you hate wokeness, vote for Biden. It’s not the only reason to vote for him, but it’s a good one. @Yascha_Mounk in @TheAtlantic
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First-Year Harvard Medical Students Will Return to Campus for the Spring | News | The Harvard Crimson
First year students at Harvard Medical School will join upperclassmen on campus this spring, Dean George Q. Daley ’82 said in an interview Friday.
Jeffrey Flier
First-Year Harvard Medical Students Will Return to Campus for the Spring | News | The Harvard Crimson
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Americans Have Lost Sight of What 'Fascism' Means
Many Americans who brand Trump and his allies as fascists are paying too little attention to abuses in Hong Kong and cultural genocide in Xinjiang.
Jewish students at UIUC have faced ‘unrelenting campaign of anti-Semitic harassment,’ complaint alleges
"I’ve been called a genocide supporter, a white supremacist, and harassed; all for being publicly Jewish," one student said.
Jeffrey Flier
Jewish students at UIUC have faced ‘unrelenting campaign of anti-Semitic harassment,’ complaint alleges - Perhaps diversity, equity and inclusion folks should get involved.
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Why Can’t We See All of the Government’s Virus Data?
Since March, federal agencies have been collecting a trove of information. But they refuse to release most of it.
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Jeffrey Flier
Why Can’t We See All of the Government’s Virus Data? Totally agree with Chris Murray that these data MUST be made available to the scientific community.
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Trump passes executive order that could destroy a future Biden administration
‘Through this order, President Trump has declared war on the professional civil service by giving himself the authority to fill the government with his political cronies who will pledge their unwavering loyalty to him, not to America’
WSJ News Exclusive | Facebook Seeks Shutdown of NYU Research Project Into Political Ad Targeting
Facebook is demanding that a New York University research project cease collecting data about its political-ad targeting practices, setting up a fight with academics seeking to study the platform without the company’s permission.
Schoolchildren Seem Unlikely to Fuel Coronavirus Surges, Scientists Say
Researchers once feared that school reopenings might spread the virus through communities. But so far there is little evidence that it’s happening.
Trump’s Plan to Make Biden Look Senile Disappeared Without a Trace
The whole plan was to expose Biden’s supposed dementia.
Apollo's Arrow
A piercing and scientifically grounded look at the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic and how it will change the way we live — "this year'...
Science journal editors shouldn't contribute to politicizing science - STAT
By advocating against or endorsing presidential candidates, science journal editors make themselves vulnerable to charges of bias.
Education department, AAUP enter controversy over professor’s white paper
Pitt accused of violating academic freedom; University says Wang’s removal was done by UPMC.
Jeffrey Flier
Education department, AAUP enter controversy over professor’s white paper and subsequent actions against him taken without any due process of the kind expected in higher education. University Times | University of Pittsburgh
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