@klerk79383390 @Koala7de7Bil @Plinz I wrote a column 2 years ago arguing that the USAID program to search for exotic viruses should be shut down. But that's not at all the same as arguing to shutdown USAID, which I strongly support.

@CaulfieldTim @TheBreakdownAB @ryanjespersen @jonathanstea @StanKutcher @doritmi @AntibioticDoc calling the Montana anti-vaccine bill "scientifically inaccurate" is way too generous. It's full-on delusional

RT @jkagan1: This is a list of blockbuster drugs in 2024. Guess how many can trace their origins to NIH funded research? All of them. h…

@matthewherper @hmkyale everyone in the scientific community is really disturbed by this. We're already thinking we have to cut the number of grad students admitted this coming fall. The US scientific enterprise is in grave jeopardy-all to appease a cruel sociopath (or 2 of them)

@steve_ravet @darbysaxbe to be specific, Ioannidis made a purely theoretical argument with not a single bit of actual data. Jager and Leek (2014) showed that the estimated rate of false findings was only 14%, based on an analysis of more than 5000 published papers

@matthewherper @statnews and if you want a deeper dive, you can check out my lecture on this topic (in 5 short parts) from 16 years ago, on YouTube. All the points remain relevant:

@InWuchang @mattwridley Yes, you are wrong. But Twitter is not the place to describe scientific results. We have 1000s of journals for that

@nomad421 @VanHollenForMD @AlsobrooksForMD @RepRaskin @NSF good try, @nomad421. The same is true for @nih: the freeze has supposedly be lifted but they haven't disbursed *any* funds. I suspect they all fear being fired if they do. So the threat is working

@InWuchang @mattwridley what a stupid question. You could claim-without evidence-that vaccines caused anything in the world. Then we're supposed to test your bogus claim? Nonsense. The claim has to be shown valid first, and that never happened. The MMR-vaccine paper was fraudulent and was retracted

Curious: over 30 years ago, I published a machine learning paper called "Learning with a Helpful Teacher" at IJCAI-91 (with Simon Kasif et al). Now it seems that #DeepSeek might have employed a modern version of this strategy, "distilling":

Another damaging effect of halting grants: 1000s of students waiting to hear from PhD programs will simply have to find something else to do. Many people are unaware that NIH/NSF fund most science PhD students and postdocs across the country

@JHU_BDPs with first author and former PhD student @markusjsommer

@dagarfield @statnews grants that have already been awarded will continue but nothing new is going out. Most grants are 3-4 years and renewals are ongoing all the time

@dagarfield @statnews you won your bet, unfortunately

If anyone can "de-extinct" the dodo, it's Beth Shapiro. I'm still not sure why they want to do it, but it will be fascinating if they do

We might never know for sure where Covid came from, but a lab leak is plausible–and now the CIA weighs in