Show threadCory DoctorowNov 27, 2023

Good data-analysis is key to addressing many of our thorniest, most pressing problems. As #BenGoldacre recounts in his inaugural #Oxford lecture, it is both possible and desirable to build ethical, privacy-preserving systems for analyzing the most sensitive personal data (NHS patient records) that yield *scores* of solid, ground-breaking medical and scientific insights:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-eaV8SWdjQ

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Ben Goldacre's inaugural lecture: a whistlestop tour of everything we do!

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Show threadCory DoctorowNov 25, 2023

Hey look at this

* This Song Teaches Counting But Is INSANELY Hard To Count https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMtGImlEmu0 (h/t @fadhl3y)

#BenGoldacre's inaugural lecture: a whistlestop tour of everything we do! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-eaV8SWdjQ

* The Bond villain compliance strategy https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/bond-villain-compliance-strategy/

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This Song Teaches Counting But Is INSANELY Hard To Count

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Jyoti MishraAug 21, 2023

@colatkinson

AHA - I found the thingy I was on about, of course it's #BenGoldacre :

https://www.ted.com/talks/ben_goldacre_what_doctors_don_t_know_about_the_drugs_they_prescribe?language=en

Over a decade old now, nothing's changed.

#BadPharma #PublicationBias

Ben Goldacre: What doctors don't know about the drugs they prescribe

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Show threadStrypeyAug 24, 2019
@natecull that piece by Dr #BrookeMagnanti was insightful in so many ways. I posted one quote from it on the fediverse earlier today. The history of the #InfoMesa is a wonderful example of #DouglasRushkoff's 'Thowing Rocks ...' thesis about VC distorting both technological and economic development. Love that she mentions #BenGoldacre's work, and her discussion of the corrosive effect of "IP" on universities and on openness and colloboration in the sciences is bang on.