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Psychologist & statistician, professor of psychiatry at the University of Ottawa. I am writing about cancer and the end of life at billgardner.Substack.com.
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As we enter the final season of the world I strongly recommend just ignoring the blatant plot holes in reality, that stuff is gonna drive you mad if you think about it too much

submitted 284 days ago • 3 comments

The rest of the world looking at their social media feed coming from the US.

submitted 284 days ago • 1 comment

I apologize for what I said the other day about refusing to believe anyone was truly dumb enough to be buying shares of Truth Social sincerely, that it had to be some kind of cynical plot I was wrong, I can admit that that being said: jesus h christ almighty

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Friends don't let friends fail to adjust for prognostic pre-treatment covariates* and needlessly fail to increase the precision of their experimental estimates trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... *especially pre-treatment outcome measures! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

submitted 404 days ago • 1 comment

I would humbly argue that the Missouri AG arguing that an innocent person should be kept on death row because to reopen his case would destabilize the system is proof that the system most motherfucking definitely needs to be destabilized.

submitted 407 days ago • 57 comments

At some point, "We have to keep Trump on the ballot or there will be violence" becomes, "We have to let Trump be president, or there will be violence," and that is, in fact, the point of the violence.

submitted 425 days ago • 57 comments

perennial peeve Bernie Sanders: I want to pass universal health care. Debate moderators: How will you pay for it? Ron DeSantis: I want a balanced budget amendment. Debate moderators: No further questions, moving on

submitted 426 days ago • 23 comments

On a very deep level, many in the media elite and punditry simply refuse to accept that Dems/liberals have defeated or dramatically outperformed Trump/MAGA in the last three national elections. This is regularly erased from the story of the Trump era. It's a remarkable blind spot.

submitted 425 days ago • 62 comments

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If enforcing eligibility requirements for president is in question: What's actually to stop a two-term president from running again, notwithstanding the 22nd Amendment?

submitted 446 days ago • 32 comments

What else can you call this but fascism? What would you say if you saw it in another country? www.cnn.com/2023/12/16/p...

submitted 451 days ago • 25 comments

University administrators vs House Republicans is the Olympiad of bad faith.

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No. But unions could.

submitted 458 days ago • 50 comments

Starting my fourth round of cancer treatment. It’s a nil-nil match so far. I hope the refs will add a lot of extra time.

submitted 468 days ago • 1 comment

I only heard Derrida talk once, at Harvard, where he said he had visited as a graduate student and was assigned to the category ‘Special Auditor’ which, he charmingly remarked, is what he’d really been for the rest of his life.

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New study finds that from 1999 to 2020 "A total of 460,000 deaths were attributable to coal PM2.5". This is on the same order as deaths due to opiod overdoses (645,000, from 1999-2021). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Today Bill Gardner informs me of Orwell's Dictum: "In much more than nine cases out of ten the only objectively truthful criticism would be 'This book is worthless ...' " billgardner.substack.com/p/should-i-b... 🙃

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