The Dao Of LifeSep 30
“The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.” — Wole Soyinka.
Arctic rivers turning orange from thawing permafrost aren’t a vibe; they’re a lab report written in iron and acid. Europe’s own watchdog says prosperity rides on a living environment. Fewer slogans, more science—and some grown-up policy. #ClimateAction #EvidenceMatters
The Dao Of LifeSep 30
“What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.” — Christopher Hitchens.
If a shutdown pauses BLS releases—including Friday’s jobs report—policy flies blind. Pair that with Arctic “rusting rivers,” and the lesson writes itself: fund the counters, follow the data, protect the commons. #EvidenceMatters #DataForDemocracy #ClimateAction
Cameron MulderApr 24, 2025

The Trump admin is killing off the datasets that tell us what’s working and what’s broken — from maternal mortality and drug use to climate emissions and child welfare.

No data = no accountability. No measurement = no problem… right?

ProPublica lays it all out:
🔗 https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-data-collection-hhs-epa-cdc-maternal-mortality

#DataDestruction #EvidenceMatters #ClimateCrisis #PublicHealth #ChildWelfare #FederalData #EJScreen #WISQARS #DataIsPower

Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More

By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades.

ProPublica
Martin Michaelis (he/him)Apr 20, 2024

We need #evidence. Credible opinions/ assumptions only start where our knowledge ends and take the available knowledge into account.
#EvidenceMatters #Epistemology #logic

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hilary-cass-i-cant-travel-on-public-transport-any-more-35pt0mvnh

Hilary Cass: I can’t travel on public transport after gender report

Author of landmark review into transgender treatment tells of online abuse and her dismay at disinformation spread by, among others, a Labour MP

The Times
Thiemo FetzerJan 8, 2023

Why is the #PennyDropping on so many #Leave voters or #Brexit implementation supporters that voted #Remain?

Well, because #evidencematters and #Brexit is NOT working. This is, of course, no surprise. #BrexitReality is costing the UK economy dearly. But why did it take such a long time for the economic burden fo #Brexit to become visible?

Well, my paper "Measuring the Regional Economic Cost of #Brexit" provides some answers.

https://tinyurl.com/mu3xrcp3

Let me try to summarize this here ⬇️

Measuring the Regional Economic Cost of Brexit: Evidence up to 2019

486/2020 Thiemo Fetzer and Shizhuo Wang, The United Kingdom (UK) reported record employment levels following its vote to Leave the European Union (EU), leading to many pundits discarding the dire pre-Brexit vote impact assessments as part of “project fear.” This paper studies the cost of the Brexit-vote to date across UK regions finding significant evidence suggesting that the economic costs of the Brexit-vote are both sizeable and far from evenly distributed. Among 382 districts, at least 168 districts appear to be Brexit-vote losers, having lost, on average 8.54 percentage points of output in 2018 compared to their respective synthetic controls. The Brexit-vote costs have increased in districts that: a) supported Leave in 2016; b) have a large manufacturing sector; c) have a large share of low skilled workers. The Brexit- vote induced economic divergence across regions is already exacerbating the regional economic inequalities that the 2016 EU referendum vote made apparent. Indirect evidence further suggests that firms may, amidst the significant (trade) policy uncertainty, have shifted away from capital to labour in the short- term given that Brexit has, to date, not led to changes in market access. The resulting short-term employment- and payroll growth post-2016 is not supported by productivity increases in most parts of the UK. This sets up the possibility for significant labor market adjustments once Brexit becomes a de-facto reality. Further, there is some evidence suggesting that COVID19 may exacerbate the regional economic impact of the Brexit-vote to date.