JAMES HEATHERS
please science correctly
if you do i will buy you a small cake and we can be friends
the book: forensicmetascience.com
- Ten years ago, half of systematic reviews conveniently did not mention their overlap with existing reviews. I wonder what the rate is now. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24581293/
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View full threadUkrainian metal has always punched above its weight, and this *completely self-produced* album about war -- and you CAN SEE WHY THAT MIGHT BE ON THEIR MINDS -- is tight AF. For the disreputable in general and fans of Sodom in partic. surgicalinvasion.bandcamp.com/album/death-...
- Grow old disgracefully with #harveymetule! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLAk...
- Don't get into vinyl. 'The internet says they have this! I'll call them on the telephone and buy local!' Store 1: 'Never heard of it, where did you hear that?' Store 2: 'Don't know what you're talking about. We can order it for you, for sixty thousand dollars'
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- You live in Oregon or the UK.
- One tour, we were playing a very heavy set - night after night. The last night of the tour, a huge blister (which had developed on one of my fingers) cracked. Result: a bloody mess. 🩸🩸 After the show, people came running towards me with a first-aid kit! Still love how barbaric this looks.
- Metal.
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- That's Stage I and it's treatable. I have Stage III and it's terminal
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- Watch it.
- Store 3: 'We're getting it, but bear in mind we're located in the Atlantic Ocean, you'll need a submarine' Give up and buy it on the internet. People: y u no shop local
- Interesting early morning reading. I have no idea if these actions are generally effective. What's the role of the former lawyers in something like this? Do they get sanctioned? If so, how?
- I strongly recommend doing these puzzles on 9x9 at 'Unreasonable'. They will help you. www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/pu...
- "You can't make us evaluate the papers in this meta-analysis super-closely using a great big checklist! That makes it harder! And I don't understand some of the checks included!" ... umm, good? It should be harder and take longer to synthesize evidence properly.
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- That would be torture to do.
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- Good Lord.
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- This is literally how I talk, and at this age, I don't know what to do about it. I am committed to the bit, but the bit is me.
- I have been leaning into Being Old for several years. If you loom over The Young and bellow I REFUSE TO LEARN THE FILTHY ARGOT OF YOUR FAILED GENERATION they tend to drop it. I cannot think of anything with less power than being 'uncool'. That isn't even taste. It's just context.
- You don't HAVE to do another goddamn poky meta-analysis. It's not mandatory. There are infinite possibilities in a glorious world (albeit one that saw fit to invent Richard Nixon and privatized water). Try one of those. It might even be fun.
- 'Oh aren't you in a good mood'. Shut up. I will come to your house and bite your pets. I will set your shoes on fire. I will perform pagan rituals to make your dreams only about Nancy Reagan combing her hair with a salmon. I will fill your office with drunken wolverines. I should sleep more.
- You shouldn't get to vomit out any big pile of garbage for the citation clout. And, make no mistake, that IS a lot of review documents. It's just turtles the whole way down. So I have vanishingly little sympathy for complaints about learning a new, better, harder standards for meta-review.
- 'I don't have time.' No-one has any time. 'I can't fit this in my project time.' Choose a different project. 'This doesn't make any sense.' Fucking learn why it's there, and it will. Just like ... all other things. You clearly learned to do a dogshit unadjusted SMD analysis, now learn this.
- The literature is completely washed out with reviews and metas and review of reviews, and all sorts of yammering horseshit. No sooner have two papers measured essentially the same thing than some giddy muffin turns up trying to meta-analyze them. We have forests of forest plots.
- These are my three children, Bomb, Nutella, and Dickhead. 7news.com.au/sunrise/the-...
- Treat yourself. This is pure.
- OH SHIT. So Warp Riders is a very very dope album from fifteen years ago. The only drawback was a pretty thin mix. They just remastered and remixed it for the 15th anniversary. And it's free. Will I get it on vinyl anyway? Bet your etceteras I will. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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- You seem fun.
- Alright, alright. Something significantly nicer: this is what prog SHOULD be. Although... it's not really prog. It's definitely rock. Other than that, you guess. Either way it's superb. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vAx...
- OH SHIT. So Warp Riders is a very very dope album from fifteen years ago. The only drawback was a pretty thin mix. They just remastered and remixed it for the 15th anniversary. And it's free. Will I get it on vinyl anyway? Bet your etceteras I will. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
- Thank God we have this handy review to clear up this particular controversy.
- "In Germany, universities are subject to special legislation exempting university employees from usual labor rights." Context for today's Science piece. ichbinhanna.wordpress.com/english-vers...
- Oh right, the piece. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- AND IT'S IN NATURE, NOT SCIENCE. I should sleep.
- mashable.com/article/goog... excited to see which artists at the intersection of art and technology will leap at this opportunity to make propaganda for big tech
- Or you could just do the subtext: searching fruitlessly for something you know is out there but unable to even construct the parameters of how to look properly, because knowledge is kept from you, driven eventually to drink.
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- Yeah I still just post Iron Fortress releases. I just love this sound. It's so wildly gross and unnecessary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=koMh...
- When the university kicked off its investigation in 2013... Bik reported 104 of Rao’s papers to the university in 2019. An official at the University of Illinois College of Medicine told her in 2022 that they were still looking into them. Serious question: why bother at this point?
- In 2013 UICOM professor Mark Holterman MD teamed up w/notorious fraudster Paolo Macchiarini to supervise the death of toddler Hannah Warren, by implanting a plastic trachea that was supposed to come to life with stem cell BS. Are they still "looking into" that?
- No idea. Was there research, or was it just medical malpractice? Those roll on different rails.
- Accept your longness.
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- Sure, but if I ever need someone to go into a crawl space for me, all the shortarses hide behind the nearest bush.
- "Is the quality of scientific evidence in respiratory medicine at risk due to mass publication and the relaxation of quality filters?" Uh, yes. It is. Sorry.
- Alright, let's go. Scene: Denver Airport nearly 1am. I am semi commuting to the city, from Boston, to work. Flight was delayed. I was already tired before that happened. I get an Uber because the train is off. The Denver airport train goes straight downtown for about nine beans, but is finished.
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View full threadAnd that really is it. It's a strange inversion of the 'we have customer facing staff for you to yell at even though what happened isn't remotely their fault' dynamic. The ride into town was completely clear, no traffic. The guy was just knackered. And bored. And poor.
- But I got OH NO THE BROKEN and I will never give it up.
- I *hate* having to pull someone's hair, but it's 1am and my company is right on the precipice between success and failure. I am done with being alive, let alone awake.' 'It's OK, I'm on the phone with Support, they can cancel it for me and send you a tow truck or something' 'Wait' And he moved.
- Three minutes later he was there in a perfectly functional car, and opened with 'I got it working!' Sure, Jan. Too tired to care. Not mad. Let's just go. Spent that ride wondering how much shit must suck if doing nothing and having to argue for every five dollars actually beats doing the job.
- 'If you can't come, you cancel' 'Oh no my car' Laying it on a bit thick. 'I'm sorry about your car, but you can absolutely cancel.' And then he says a line that I have used a thousand times since because I love it: 'OH NO THE BROKEN'
- That has featured about once a week in my life since. Cat knocks a glass off the table? OH NO THE BROKEN.
- And the guy doesn't move. At all. About five minutes in, I message him. 'You coming?' 'I cannot. The car is broken.' 'Oh. Then cancel the ride?' 'I cannot. You will have to cancel.' Weird. That isn't how it works. Of course it isn't hard to figure out. They're running a scam.
- They park up close by, and the airport isn't near fuck-all. So they get the rides because there's no other reason to be out there - it's the middle of nowhere. After picking the ride up, they don't do anything. Then they tell you to cancel, and they get paid the cancellation fee.
- On the app, about eight cars are available. Suspiciously, they are all clustered in a small, cookie-cutter, new community development nearby. Not too close. A place where a lot of cars can pull over legally. A strange place for a lot of cars to be. The app connects me straight away.
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View full thread... It's the only thing that's relevant. When the journals are 'rogue', from the title of the article, they are using the previously established quality metrics (which determine the acquisition cost of the journal... more volume, more IF = higher cost) to price access.
- A rogue or hijacked journal sells 'real publications'. They are more expensive than fake journal products. Access to them can be bought by individual dishonest researchers but they are more frequently targeted by paper mills, because their business model explicitly supports this kind of targeting.
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- There are too many things to look at, and the 'standards' are too abstract. PubMed is not designed to triage quality, it is designed to index the shit other people have triaged.
