Thinkmonkey for hire. He/him; they/them is also fine.
Biologist, humanist, atheist, democratic socialist.
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If I follow you it's because you said something funny, insightful, or both, and I'm hoping you'll do it again.
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But their "editor's note" published alongside our letter is, not to put too fine a point on it, complete bullshit.
"Far from heralding or sensationalizing the tool, we presented it as a rough indicator of a real problem."
It’s not a rough indicator; their own data show that it entirely fails. More importantly, a rough indicator with racist consequences is far worse than no indicator at all, and the article neither notes these racist consequences nor this basic fact.
Remember that abysmal attempt at creating a fake paper detector that #Science magazine trumpeted? The one that just looked to see if you used your institutional email address, had international collaborators, and were affiliated with a hospital?
The one that instantiated the authors biases and then they turned around and used as evidence for those biases?
Science has just published the letter that Brandon Ogbunugafor and I wrote in response.
Kudos to them for that...
One week ago, a court in California ruled that employers cannot be sued for spreading COVID to their workers due to lack of protections.
This week, In-N-Out banned their employees from wearing masks.
This is horrible.
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