“Vaping will be banned in cars carrying children, in playgrounds and outside schools and at hospitals, expanding smoke-free laws.”
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Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed The "landmark" legislation aims to stop anyone born after 1 January 2009 from taking up smoking to create a smoke-free generation.

With all the other distractions, don’t let this good news pass you by today.

“Children aged 17 or younger will face a lifelong ban on buying cigarettes, as the Tobacco and Vapes Bill clears Parliament.”

www.bbc.co.uk/news/a...
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No further meningitis cases in Weymouth after three infections Three cases were confirmed in Weymouth, according to the UK Health Security Agency.

“No further cases of meningitis have been reported in the local area after three students in Dorset contracted the disease, health officials have confirmed.”

Happy birthday.

Footballs could be designed to reduce impact of heading - scientists Scientists believe footballs could be designed to reduce the impact of heading after new research discovered the action caused a previously unreported pressure wave energy transfer to the brain.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

An important example of where our intuition and a “common sense” reasoning doesn’t necessarily get it right

“high energy pressure wave transfer was not limited to leather balls, so if this energy is associated with neurodegenerative disease, it is not a problem that has gone away with modern balls”

#PanicOnTheStreetsOfLondon

Yep, it’s ahead recorded and being produced as we speak.
My voice had just about recovered!

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Something I write about in the book is survivorship bias: how we only see the winners or most successful (those that survive some filtering process).

On a completely unrelated note, I’ve decided to share my Wordle results today!

Wordle 1,765 2/6

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If you like the sound of it please do pre-order:

Amazon www.amazon.co.uk/Don...

Bookshop.org uk.bookshop.org/p/bo...

Or you can read a bit more about it on my substack: open.substack.com/pu...
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3) Constructive missingness.

Absence itself becomes informative. Sometimes not finding something, after a proper search, tells you something important. “Negative data” can be as revealing, if not more so, than traditional positive data. Silence can speak.
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2) Extrinsic missingness.

Sometimes the missingness is imposed from outside. Data can be biased before it even reaches us. Samples can be skewed. Evidence can be selectively reported. Information can be suppressed. The story we’re handed already has parts removed.
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That’s usually a feature, not a bug - but it can also cause us problems. It can make us confidently wrong, and it can make it hard to notice mistakes (especially the ones we’re “sure” we’d spot).
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1) Intrinsic missingness.

Sometimes missingness is produced by our own minds/bodies. Our brains are brilliant editors. They filter out “noise”, fill in blind spots, and create a smooth, coherent experience from messy inputs.
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Different kinds of Missingness. In the book I explore three complementary types of missingness that show up everywhere, from everyday life to science, to politics, and even the stories we tell to ourselves: intrinsic, extrinsic, constructive.
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If you’ve ever confidently sung the wrong lyric, trusted a statistic that later fell apart, or felt sure you understood a situation only to realise you’d been working with part of the story, then you already know the subject. You just might not have known you knew it!
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Not missingness as in “I can’t find my keys” (though that too).

By missingness here, I mean the hidden gaps that shape how we think, decide, argue, and even how we determine what counts as true.
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You Don't Know What You're Missing: The science of what’s lost, and how to find it The science of what’s lost, and how to find it

I’m delighted to share some news: my new book "You Don’t Know What You’re M ss ng" is coming out in the UK on 4th June.

It’s about something that lies hidden in the background of almost everything we do, yet rarely gets named: Missingness.

uk.bookshop.org/p/bo...
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I've written a bit about my new book: You Don't Know What You're Missing (out on 4th June), in my latest substack.

open.substack.com/pu...

This feels like when Dickov scored in the playoff final for City against Gillingham. Massive moment.

Good luck next week.

October to March is known as “Bronch Season” in children’s hospitals, where the wards are full of children with respiratory infections struggling to breathe.

Both my babies had RSV - an experience I wouldn’t wish on anyone.

This vaccine sounds like a game changer and I am so grateful.

Pregnancy vaccine reduces baby hospital admissions for RSV by 80% A study confirms the vaccine gives excellent protection for babies against life-threatening chest infections.

Some good news.
“A vaccine during pregnancy which protects newborns against nasty chest infections (RSV) is cutting hospital admissions of babies by more than 80%, UK health officials say.”

What does it mean when 84% of almost 30,000 Daily Mail readers think we should rejoin the EU?

www.dailymail.co.uk/...

A missing piece in Starmer’s EU reset: bring back ‘Roam Like at Home’ Bring back 'Roam Like at Home': why we should not forget to talk about mobile roaming in Europe in the case of an EU reset

Bring back 'Roam Like at Home': why we should not forget to talk about mobile roaming in Europe in the case of an EU reset | Cleisthenes' Disciple

Reform UK Candidate Claimed COVID Was 'Pentagon-Led Plot' in Conspiracy Theory Journal Exclusive: Reform candidate David Booth is listed as the author of a paper arguing the pandemic was "staged" by Western military and intelligence agencies

“Writing in the Journal of 9/11 Studies, David Booth, standing for Reform in Croydon, refers to the Covid pandemic as a “staged event” that was designed by “powerful forces” to control the population.”

An insult the memories of those who died of Covid.

Ah, that makes sense!

Reform UK Candidate Claimed COVID Was 'Pentagon-Led Plot' in Conspiracy Theory Journal Exclusive: Reform candidate David Booth is listed as the author of a paper arguing the pandemic was "staged" by Western military and intelligence agencies

“Writing in the Journal of 9/11 Studies, David Booth, standing for Reform in Croydon, refers to the Covid pandemic as a “staged event” that was designed by “powerful forces” to control the population.”

An insult the memories of those who died of Covid.

It probably means that the survey is not a representative sample of typical Daily Mail readers, but still!

What does it mean when 84% of almost 30,000 Daily Mail readers think we should rejoin the EU?

www.dailymail.co.uk/...