11 moments women changed the world in 2020 ЁЯТкWhat would you add?ЁЯСЗ

1. Kamala Harris makes history as first woman of color elected US vice-president

2. Female-Led countries handled coronavirus better, study suggests
3. Record number of women took over Fortune 500 companies in 2020
4. Malala Yousafzai Graduates from Oxford University
5. Zendaya makes Emmys history as youngest lead actress drama winner
6. Jacinda Ardern appoints Maori MP Nanaia Mahuta as foreign minister
7. Finland's women-led government has equalized family leave: 7 months for each parent
8. Scotland becomes first nation to provide free period products for all
9. A record number of women will serve in the 117th Congress, including at least 51 women of color
10. Rihanna donates $2.1 million to domestic violence survivors during coronavirus lockdown
11. World's first patient to get Covid vaccine has second Pfizer jab

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global health policy in 2020 has centered around NPI's (non-pharmaceutical interventions) like distancing, masks, school closures

these have been sold as a way to stop infection as though this were science.

this was never true and that fact was known and knowable.

let's look.


above is the plot of social restriction and NPI vs total death per million. there is 0 R2. this means that the variables play no role in explaining one another.

we can see this same relationship between NPI and all cause deaths.

this is devastating to the case for NPI.


clearly, correlation is not proof of causality, but a total lack of correlation IS proof that there was no material causality.

barring massive and implausible coincidence, it's essentially impossible to cause something and not correlate to it, especially 51 times.

this would seem to pose some very serious questions for those claiming that lockdowns work, those basing policy upon them, and those claiming this is the side of science.

there is no science here nor any data. this is the febrile imaginings of discredited modelers.

this has been clear and obvious from all over the world since the beginning and had been proven so clearly by may that it's hard to imagine anyone who is actually conversant with the data still believing in these responses.

everyone got the same R
Two things can be true at once:
1. There is an issue with hostility some academics have faced on some issues
2. Another academic who himself uses threats of legal action to bully colleagues into silence is not a good faith champion of the free speech cause


I have kept quiet about Matthew's recent outpourings on here but as my estwhile co-author has now seen fit to portray me as an enabler of oppression I think I have a right to reply. So I will.

I consider Matthew to be a colleague and a friend, and we had a longstanding agreement not to engage in disputes on twitter. I disagree with much in the article @UOzkirimli wrote on his research in @openDemocracy but I strongly support his right to express such critical views

I therefore find it outrageous that Matthew saw fit to bully @openDemocracy with legal threats, seeking it seems to stifle criticism of his own work. Such behaviour is simply wrong, and completely inconsistent with an academic commitment to free speech.

I am not embroiling myself in the various other cases Matt lists because, unlike him, I think attention to the detail matters and I don't have time to research each of these cases in detail.

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