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Prof Jeffrey S Morris

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George S. Pepper Professor of Public Health & Preventive Medicine; Biostats, Stats & AI; lifelong learner & truth seeker; Views are my own, not my employer's

Philadelphia, PA
Joined December 2014
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Prof Jeffrey S Morris
5 years
Just put up a website that aggregates and tries to provide a balanced discussion of Covid-19 research results, data sets, applications and models, and commentaries and linking to useful data sets and models.
covid-datascience.com
This page aggregates and tries to provide a balanced discussion of research results, data sets, applications and models, and commentaries regarding Covid-19, using a data science approach gather,...
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“Sneakflation”: How Trump’s tariffs are gradually raising costs for American consumers - CNN
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When tariffs are tacked on to many imported goods, someone’s got to foot the bill.
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What do you want to know?.
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mRNA vaccines hold promise for many diseases. Now the tech is under fire 
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Researchers warn that halting federal contracts for mRNA vaccine research could weaken pandemic preparedness and slow medical advances.
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These are all outstanding principles of scientific practice — scientists should already be following them but I can attest as a statistics professor that not all do.
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Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD
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🥇 Today, NIH has released its implementation plan for incorporating gold standard science into everything we do. The plan incorporates the 9 tenets of gold standard science adopted by the U.S. Government and aligns with @HHSgov’s framework for achieving these principles.
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RT @jsm2334: I found this paper especially insightful: It provides a clear demonstration that autism diagnosis inc….
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Link to full article:
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America is not a good place to be an early adult.
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Here is a discussion and evaluation of the death rate among the 25-44yr old millennial group in the USA being so much higher than other rich countries. The author set out expecting it to be a story about the pandemic (and possibly vaccines), but instead found it was a much.
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Owen Gregorian
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American Millennials Are Dying at an Alarming Rate | Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, Andrew Stokes & Jacob Bor, Slate. We’re mortality experts. There are a few things that could be happening here. About 3 million Americans die every year. Compared with other rich countries, we die at
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People claim all kinds of things on social media. But how do we decide what is true, false, or uncertain — and how much should those judgments depend on the scientific evidence in the available literature?. Most people insist their views are backed by “the science.” Yet many.
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This paper examines conflicts of interest among ACIP members, and, as many of us immediately recognized, RFK significantly exaggerated and distorted the extent of those conflicts. He did so to justify dismissing the entire panel and replacing them with individuals aligned with.
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Genevieve Kanter, PhD
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▶️ New study: Conflicts of interest on CDC vaccine panel were at historic lows prior to RFK Jr dismissal. In our @JAMA_current study , we looked at disclosed conflicts of interest (COIs) in ACIP and VRBPAC (FDA vaccines committee) between 2000 and 2024. We found that:.▪️although
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RT @DrPaulOffit: Beyond the Noise #78: RFK Jr.’s Plan to Eliminate Vaccines via @YouTube .RFK Jr. is on the verge o….
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NIH director Bhattacharya just put out a statement outlining NIH priorities. These are exciting and important priorities, and my hope is that the NIH evaluation and decision making in terms of grant funding remains science-based and not political to enable impactful scientific
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Prof Jeffrey S Morris
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Sorry -- the author is an infectious disease doctor with some background in immunology, but not primarily a basic science immunologist.
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A Stanford immunologist reviews the 181 page document that RFK provides as evidence supporting his statements that harms of mRNA vaccines outweigh benefits attempting to justify his decision to cancel contracts.
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“This isn't scientific disagreement. It's either staggering incompetence or willful misrepresentation,” writes infectious disease physician Jake Scott.
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Prof Jeffrey S Morris
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RT @MDAndersonNews: PD-1. CTLA-4. PD-L1. LAG-3. They're all checkpoint inhibitors, a type of immunotherapy used to treat many cancers, incl….
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Immunotherapy is used to treat many types of cancer, and the list is growing. But immunotherapy doesn’t work for all cancers or patients yet. Here’s which patients and cancers may qualify for...
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Sudden cardiac deaths in young athletes is such a big problem!!! .
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A competitive athlete dies every three days, often of cardiac arrest
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Hviid has now directly addressed all methodological concerns raised by RFK and others on the Annals of Internal Medicine website:. He conducted a series of sensitivity analyses showing that his results were unchanged when:. 1. Including events from 14
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Key quote for our modern times, as we encounter individuals using dubious scientific arguments to claim they have:.Really.Fundamental.Knowledge
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