Jason Richwine now has a job in the Dept. of Commerce
https://science.house.gov/news/press-releases/chairwomen-johnson-and-stevens-criticize-appointment-of-dr-jason-richwine-for-new-senior-nist-role

I should use this more.

This woman Megan Squire, who works at Elon University in North Carolina, is another one trying so hard to get me deplatformed. She hasn’t been successful so far because she is not as smart as me.

https://twitter.com/megansquire0/status/1347757129235640320?s=21

Tfw you work at a mediocre university so you have to burn everything down that upsets you

Parler is such a piece of shit app

Very soon you’ll be put on a social media watchlist for refusing to put your pronouns in your bio. It’ll prevent you from going to school, getting employed, etc. Scary!

Facebook is blocking Ron Paul from managing his own page.

Considering that Senator Joe Manchin said he won’t support this and it most likely can’t pass through budget reconciliation, this is a non-starter

For those who don’t know, budget reconciliation is a way for Congress to pass important tax and spending legislation with only 50 votes instead of the usual 60. It was created so Congress can avoid a govt shutdown if they don’t get 60 votes on end-of-year spending packages

It’s how the tax cuts and jobs act was passed in 2017, for example

I hate the Scientific American. One of the most unscientific magazines ever

The fact that the credibility of social science research has been decimated over the years is for very good reason.

Also, as you’d expect, divorce is actually very bad for kids (in both the long and short-term). But it’s not like you need a study to guess that

No economist thinks like this. Supply and demand is a popular idea of explaining real world markets. Just because basic empirical evidence suggests that leftist orthodoxy isn’t well-grounded doesn’t mean the poor should starve!

https://emlab.berkeley.edu/~obstfeld/e237_sp00/ohanian.pdf

Ohanian and Cole (2001) argue that well intentioned but badly designed government intervention on the parts of President Hoover and Roosevelt prolonged the Great Depression by about 7 years. It challenges 2 assumptions about the Depression, one is that the New Deal ended it, and the other is that President Hoover was “laissez-faire,” which he wasn’t.

https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/36853299/angel_onuoha_ec_970.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

This is an excellent student paper from Onuhua (2018) which critiques the study design of Fischer and Massey (2007). He finds that after controlling for multicollinearity (which essentially makes regression analyses less accurate), there is very strong evidence for a mismatch effect with affirmative action. And Massey’s AA studies don’t take into account initial major, which would dictate how easy or hard your class are. There have been studies finding that AA students drop out of STEM to easier majors at much higher rates than other students, so the effects could be even larger than this paper finds

The fact that supposed historians like him are having a meltdown about a report that’s obviously going to have a partisan bias is hilarious