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Ep. 194 The Psychology of the Pandemic Response, with JD Haltigan Jan 09, 2022

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Our guest is JD Haltigan, a developmental psychologist at the University of Toronto who joins us to discuss psychological factors that may explain the larger social phenomena in the pandemic response.

GUEST:

JD Haltigan, PhD: Twitter and Substack

LINKS:

JD Haltigan. "Understanding pandemic-emergent personality and behavioral psychopathology."
JD Haltigan. "Pittsburgh: A City Study in the Successor Ideology."

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Ep. 193 Tracy Høeg on the Anti-Science of School Closures Jan 01, 2022

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Our guest is Tracy Høeg, MD, PhD, who has made remarkable research contributions pertaining to SARS-COV2 transmission in schools and to vaccine-related myocarditis. She has published her findings in the CDC's MMWR and has given oral testimony to Congress.

GUEST:

Tracy Høeg, MD, PhD: Twitter

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Ep. 192 A Conversation with Viral Myalgia Dec 14, 2021

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Our guest is the anonymous physician who provides very keen analyses of COVID-related issues on well-documented Twitter threads.

GUEST:

Viral Myalgia, MD, PhD: Twitter

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Ep. 191 The Myth of Statistical Inference (Part 2): At the Heart of the Replication Crisis Dec 11, 2021

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Our guest is Michael Acree author of The Myth of Statistical Inference, published by Springer earlier this year. Dr. Acree is a former statistician at the University of California San Francisco. This is the second episode in a 2-part series.

GUEST:

Michael Acree, PhD.

RELATED EPISODES:

Ep. 49 Many Statisticians, Many Answers: The Methodological Factor in the Replication Crisis (with Brian Nosek)

Ep. 57 Neither Fisher nor Bayes:The Limits of Statistical Inference

Ep. 190 The Myth of Statistical Inference (Part 1) Historical Background

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Ep. 190 The Myth of Statistical Inference (Part 1): Historical Background Dec 09, 2021

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GUEST:

Michael Acree, PhD.

RELATED EPISODE:

Ep. 57 Neither Fisher nor Bayes:The Limits of Statistical Inference

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Ep. 189 Paul Marik on Letting Doctors Be Doctors Dec 06, 2021

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Our guest is Dr. Paul Marik, an acclaimed academic leader in critical care medicine who has also taken controversial positions over the years about the treatment of patients, most notably recently about using Ivermectin as part of a treatment protocol for COVID-19. We discuss his career and the tension between the knowledge that comes from clinical experience and that derived from formalized clinical studies.

GUEST:

Paul Marik, MD: Webpage and Curriculum Vitae

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Ep. 188 Jason Abaluck on the Bangladesh Mask Trial Dec 03, 2021

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Our guest is Jason Abaluck, Professor of Economics at the Yale School of Management and one of the principal investigators of the Bangladesh cluster randomized trial of community masking that was just published in Science.

GUEST:

Jason Abaluck, PhD: Twitter and faculty webpage

RELATED EPISODE:

Ep. 187. That Bangladesh Mask Study! with Ben Recht

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Ep. 187 That Bangladesh Mask Study! Nov 28, 2021

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Our guest is Ben Recht, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley, who recently got hold of and analyzed the raw data from the Bangladesh cluster randomized control trial of masking which made headlines in September.

GUEST:

Ben Recht: Twitter and webpage

LINKS:

Ben Recht's recent blog post: Revisiting the Bangladesh Mask RCT
Michel Accad Why N-of-1 is Enough
Ep. 97 with Peter Klein on "Evidence-Based Economics: What the Doctor Ordered?"

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Ep. 186 Jenin Younes on Legal Challenges to Vaccine Mandates Nov 26, 2021

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Our guest is Jenin Younes, a Litigation Counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance. She joins us to discuss her involvement in advocacy and in legal challenges against vaccine mandates. She holds a B.A. degree from Cornell University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law. She has been featured on several national media outlets for her commentary and she recently penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal building the case against mandatory vaccination in children.

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Jenin Younes: Twitter and webpage

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Ep. 185 James Heathers on Ivermectin, Data Science, and Trust Nov 23, 2021

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Our guest is James Heathers, physiologist, scientist, and part-time "data thug" who's developed the technique of sniffing out fraudulent or highly erroneous scientific publications into an art. He has recently published "The Real Scandal About Ivermectin," an article in The Atlantic featuring an analysis that he and his colleagues have performed identifying devastating flaws in some randomized control trials that purportedly showed Ivermectin to be effective against COVID-19. The article discusses the Ivermectin story in the broader context of the reliability of scientific publications. James is also Chief Scientific Officer at the technology company Cipher Skin.

GUEST:

James Heathers, PhD: Twitter, and podcast

PREVIOUS APPEARANCE ON THE PODCAST:

Ep. 65 James Heathers: Why Science Needs Data Thugs.

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