Favorites August 14th 2022

March 2022, Mado Restaurant, Toronto

Science Is Strategic @scienceisstrat1

One silver lining in the very dark cloud of the Covid crisis is the explosion of research and discovery in vaccine science. (1/2) @erikbryn @Noahpinion @AlecStapp @TimHarford

An example he gives is that Pfizer & Valneva have started a Phase 3 Lyme disease vaccine trial. 14% of the world population has or has had Lyme disease!

Will Doran @will_doran

Who could’ve guessed an app owned by the Chinese government might be used to the detriment of the US

The New York Times @nytimes

TikTok is becoming a primary incubator of misinformation ahead of the November midterms, including widely-viewed voter fraud conspiracy theories. The qualities that allow TikTok to fuel dance fads can also make inaccurate claims difficult to contain. https://t.co/2ohIsbOEYQ

Moving their data storage to the US isn't good enough.

Threads

• A short thread of charts about the importance of Immigration to the success of the United States.

• If you want more Trump/DoJ analysis, Renato Mariotti has a thread analysing the strength of the DoJ's case at trial.