I cannot believe #EmilyOster continues to get airtime for her hot takes, which are provocative, but so often wrong.

#EmilyOster now senior fellow at Himmler Institute, she was just warming up with her Excel sheets tracking drinking while pregnant, HIV/AIDS and schools not spreading COVID
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Can economists give wise advice about #pregnancy? Read #EmilyOster:

"Obstetricians will tell you to cut out coffee and alcohol; Oster concludes that studies suggest you can actually safely have a small amount of both. Doctors also caution women to avoid deli meats and never to eat sushi […]

I think that Emily Oster overestimates the proportion of vaccine "skeptics" still willing to listen to Emily Oster.

#vaccine #covid #emilyoster

#EmilyOster
Cherry picking data sets or research based on weak methods is known as the
#FileDrawerEffect
When press take that week data from gov sources and spread it that's #DuckSpeak HT George Orwell 1984 book
#COVIDorphans

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Part 2, #EmilyOster and drink while pregnant advice, is not aging well as the CDC notes Alcohol a top 3 cause of cancer. Famous quacks with lots of sheep to follow them.. like JFK, fringe advice sells books and gets attention

COVID-19 Planning Considerations: Guidance for School Re-entry The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) supports collaborative decision-making among school districts and local and state public health departments about when it is safe to open schools.

I feel sorry for your offspring and anyone who has to help them if you're promoting the sloppy parenting advice of #EmilyOster and her COVID slop biased "dashboard" and her schools not spreading COVID baloney..her AAP slop source of data, deleted in shame
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COVID-19 Planning Considerations: Guidance for School Re-entry The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) supports collaborative decision-making among school districts and local and state public health departments about when it is safe to open schools.

Mother Jones editor a neo lib drunk soccer lady who went all #EmilyOster apeshit (kids unlikely to catch or transmit COVID) anti woke in school renaming... Seriously they believed one blog in 2020, since deleted. #ClaraJefferySF
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Part III TBR Pile

#StephenKing #TheInstitute #TylerHays #TheImaginaryCorpse #EmilyOster #Cribsheet #NKJemisin #TheStoneSky #LeeChild #DieTrying #MegBashwiner #JosephFink #TheFirstTenYears #AlexandraBracken #Lore #TheodoraGoss #TheStrangeCaseOfTheAlchemistsDaughter #NeilGaiman #AnansiBoys #FairyTale