Josh Stevenson - Fringe Data Analyst
@ifihadastick
Data. Science. Evidence. Policy. Taller on Zoom.
Overjoyed to hear of the nomination of @DrJBhattacharya to Director of NIH. Dr B is compassionate, thoughtful, wise, and has the rare and urgent skill of being able to evaluate trade offs and the true effects of policy. He's exactly who should be in charge of this agency and by…

Turns out - the "kidnapping" was faked for sympathy and by activists.
She’s a mother from L.A. — taken out of her car on her way to work, and then held in a warehouse as officers hoped she would “self-deport.” No hearing. Just fear. This doesn't make anyone safer. ktla.com/news/local-new…
This is what I voted for. Thank you @NIHDirector_Jay @drmakaryfda and @seckennedy
UPDATE: Revised version of the study comparing mortality outcomes in a matched Pfizer-Moderna cohort in Florida: 1. Matched ~ 2 million residents receiving 1st dose of Pfizer vs. Moderna mRNA COVID vaccine! 2. Pfizer recipients still show similar significantly higher risk of…
FDA Expert Panel on Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) and ... Important discussion regarding SSRIs (antidepressants) and pregnancy. Encourage all primary care doctors, therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists to view this debate and encourage their…
THIS is why Tucker Carlson will never debate Ben Shapiro. Listen to Tucker's complete meltdown "Why don't you go f#ck yourself!" after @rcbregman called Tucker a mouthpiece for billionaires on Fox. Tucker falls apart at the slightest pushback *Tucker invited Dutch historian…
This UK report on school-based mental health interventions is just another piece of evidence that a focus on emotions & feelings has been a disaster for young people. It is reverse-CBT. SEL must be abolished along with the Department of Education that funds similar programs.
Male track and field athlete "Saidie" Schreiner is suing Princeton because the university said he couldn't run in the women's division at a track meet at the school. His own university has already barred him from the women's team. He complained earlier this year that DI schools…
People who work in NGOs and NGO-like industries almost always believe their work should be remunerated based on the ‘value’ they themselves ascribe to it, even when the market for what they produce falls well short of being able to provide what they think they deserve.
Funny how all that protect women’s sports energy goes right out the window when women ask for more of the revenue they generate.
Thread: Progressives are standing with Sesame Street. For a long time, Sesame Street has lived on in the imaginations of people who think that it is still a little non-profit that generates kids educational programming. Nothing could be further from the truth. Let's see.
Lots to love about this NYT "review" of me and @conservmillen. Some highlights: 1) The author opens by suggesting that our books are a part of a right-wing MAGA movement that is actively promoting cruelty and callousness, and then quotes Allie Beth saying “Like you, I want to be…
There have been lots of dishonest evaluations of Toxic Empathy from the left (none of whom have read the book), but this article published today in NYT is the most disgraceful. Completely dishonest framing of a very straightforward—and totally correct—observation about the…
These newly obtained emails indicate that, in response to a letter from the National School Boards Association that characterized concerned parents as domestic terrorists, the White House and DOJ scrambled over a weekend in October 2021 to come up with a justification to…
🚨SMOKING GUN🚨 AFL has obtained new documents CONCLUSIVELY PROVING that AG Merrick Garland’s infamous Oct. 4 memo labeling concerned parents at school board meetings “domestic terrorists” was POLITICALLY ORCHESTRATED and DRIVEN by the Biden White House. “WH has been in touch.”
The new documents released by @TulsiGabbard leave no doubt - none - that the @BarackObama White House invented a phony espionage scandal to hang on the incoming Trump administration. The sole question is, why? What idiot thought this would work, that it was a good idea?
The actual endgame of "defund the police": security for the rich only. h/t @robkhenderson
Introducing Patrol. Homeowners in LA can now book off-duty police officers to help protect their homes. Now available in Brentwood, Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Holmby Hills, and Malibu — more areas coming soon.
1/3 That George Orwell’s estate commissioned an ideologically compliant, non-problematic retelling of 1984 that ‘says all the things’ is the most Orwellian thing ever. h/t Kirn and Taibbi, I can’t believe this is real.
Let’s discuss America’s so-called “most honest historian”, Darryl Cooper (aka, Martyr Made). 🧵 ... (1/34)
VICTORY! POTUS will cut off federal funding to hospitals that provide "gender-affirming" care to minors in a show of fiscal responsibility, child protection, and common sense. Gender ghouls are being kicked off the government dime. This is the way.
The Trevor Project is a left-wing shill for the gender medicine machine. It urges children to “unlearn” the idea that humans are male or female, telling them that “gender and sex exist on a spectrum.” Now, the White House has finally kicked the Trevor Project off the government…
The Trump administration has officially ended funding for the controversial Trevor Project.
Excellent piece. Tinkling bricks, all the way down. 🎹🧱👏 “Once mental illness stops being a diagnosis and starts being an identity … Psychiatrists will … start being counter staff at cosmetic psychiatry boutiques, selling psychoactive accessories to wealthy neurotics.”
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