Best of Twitter - Week of January 10, 2022 [1/2]
Phenomenal paper just published in Science persuasively demonstrating that EBV causes most if not all multiple sclerosis.
Phenomenal epidemiological design and technical achievement. 👏
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
^ EBV = Epstein-Barr Virus
The association is extraordinarily strong, EBV specific, and temporal. Key evidence that the association is causation. How could you explain this if EBV wasn't causing the vast majority of MS?
Over the last two months I've read dozens of studies about gas stoves and indoor air quality.
I also installed monitors in our home and ran my own tests.
Here's a thread on what I learned 🧵 #energytwitter
Here's a chart showing the average level of NO2 throughout December.
The dotted line is the daily average. The top line is the peak concentration.
Our daily average hovered around 2x the WHO guidelines.
The NRC was created in 1975. Since then, zero new nuclear power plants in the US have ever reached operation.
[New = entities whose initial application for a construction permit / operating license (or a combined license) was filed with the NRC.]
H/t @elidourado for this.
NRC @NRCgov
IMHO, the Grokking paper is one of the most important breakthroughs of last year. It's the spiritual successor to "Understanding DL Requires Rethinking...".
It has <5 citations on Google Scholar. Why aren't more people studying it? Are people not able to reproduce it or sth?
@Love2Code 2 main results are summarized in the screenshot. 1) training for a really long time - far longer than what most practitioners think is reasonable, can incur a sudden "phase change" in validation accuracy. 2) more data accelerates the speed at which this phase change occurs.
^ lots of discussion in the replies, people unsure if this is trivial or deeply profound
Guys, I just found this Cochrane review concluding that "routine scale and polish treatment makes little or no difference to gingivitis, probing depths and oral health‐related quality of life". Why do we have our teeth scraped??
cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.10…
This evidence review and the Atlantic article below (h/t @ukuv) have suddenly made me very skeptical of dental procedures.
Quarantined section
Important tip on rapid antigen tests (RAT) for Omicron. In the last 2 days a few of my patients have tested RAT negative when collecting only nasal samples but positive on throat + nasal samples. See video for instructions on how to collect a good sample. Tips in following tweets
Abby Wood @Abbydietitian
🔴 Leading British and US scientists thought it was likely that Covid accidentally leaked from a laboratory but were concerned that further debate would harm science in China, emails show
🔓 This article is currently free to read
telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/1…
^ “Leading British and US scientists thought it was likely that Covid accidentally leaked from a laboratory but were concerned that further debate would harm science in China, emails show.” 🤦♂️
An April 2020 email by Dr Collins makes the objective of Proximal Origin clear: to "settle" and "put down" the lab #OriginOfCovid hypothesis.
Perhaps my biggest concern regarding these previously private emails revealed today is that some of the leading experts who’ve fought vigorously against the #COVID19 lab incident hypothesis & suppressed debate had actually thought a lab origin to be a very real possibility. https://t.co/e8x5F596iT
Oversight Committee Republicans @GOPoversight