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How We Can Err if We Rely on Randomized Controlled Trials

Medicine and the Machine

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What Is Scientific Capital?

The WHO famously ignored a letter from 238 aerosol scientists who wrote to them in July 2020. The committee did change its website, but they changed the website in the opposite direction. I was applying my training as a social scientist because I studied social sciences in the middle of studying medicine. So we were applying that. And actually, we very recently applied that same set of ideas in a paper that is less social science, in a sort of mainstream paper for the British medical journal.

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