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← Some people believe they know what works based on mechanistic science and low quality observational studies.
17 connected korrents · 15 moments from 30 Aug 2005 to 9 Oct 2026.
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Read this korrent: Some people believe they know what works based on mechanistic science and low quality observational studies.
Some people believe they know what works based on mechanistic science and low quality observational studies.
Last stated 4 weeks ago
9 Oct 2026
VP
Vinay Prasad — holds since 2026-10-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: People tend to assume their habitual practices achieve what they intend, even without evidence that they do. — tap to centre the map on it
People tend to assume their habitual practices achieve what they intend, even without evidence that they do.
Last stated 4 months ago
22 Jun 2026
HK
Henrik Karlsson — holds since 2026-06-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The smaller the studies a field runs, the less likely its published findings are to be true. — tap to centre the map on it
The smaller the studies a field runs, the less likely its published findings are to be true.
Last stated 21 years ago
30 Aug 2005
JI
John Ioannidis — holds since 2005-08-30 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Confidence in a belief depends mostly on the quality of the story, not the amount of evidence — tap to centre the map on it
Confidence in a belief depends mostly on the quality of the story, not the amount of evidence
DK
Daniel Kahneman — holds since c. 2011 — tap for who they are
Same subject: How science works can be reasoned about in advance, because the activity has invariants that do not change over time. — tap to centre the map on it
How science works can be reasoned about in advance, because the activity has invariants that do not change over time.
Last stated 5 years ago
17 Mar 2022
JR
José Luis Ricón — holds since 2022-03-17 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Confidence in a belief reflects the coherence of the story the mind built, not the quality of the evidence — tap to centre the map on it
Confidence in a belief reflects the coherence of the story the mind built, not the quality of the evidence
DK
Daniel Kahneman — holds since c. 2011 — tap for who they are
Same subject: An audience wants a maker's judgment more than their research. — tap to centre the map on it
An audience wants a maker's judgment more than their research.
Last stated 2 months ago
19 Sept 2026
DS
David Sparks — holds since 2026-09-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The evidence behind mainstream sleep advice is much weaker than sleep scientists and public health experts present it as being. — tap to centre the map on it
The evidence behind mainstream sleep advice is much weaker than sleep scientists and public health experts present it as being.
Last stated 5 years ago
10 Feb 2022
AG
Alexey Guzey — holds since 2022-02-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A hotter field with more teams racing on the same question produces less reliable findings, not more. — tap to centre the map on it
A hotter field with more teams racing on the same question produces less reliable findings, not more.
Last stated 21 years ago
30 Aug 2005
JI
John Ioannidis — holds since 2005-08-30 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Authors should treat peer review as a test run before a select, hand-picked audience. — tap to centre the map on it
Authors should treat peer review as a test run before a select, hand-picked audience.
Last stated 3 years ago
25 Apr 2024
SH
Suzana Herculano-Houzel — holds since 2024-04-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Automatic filters cannot replace community acceptance, and human referees cannot be removed from mathematical publication. — tap to centre the map on it
Automatic filters cannot replace community acceptance, and human referees cannot be removed from mathematical publication.
Last stated 3 months ago
17 Aug 2026
TT
Terence Tao — holds since 2026-08-17 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Combining multiple AI models' outputs into one final answer tends to discard most of the good ideas that only one model produced. — tap to centre the map on it
Combining multiple AI models' outputs into one final answer tends to discard most of the good ideas that only one model produced.
Last stated 5 months ago
15 Jun 2026
RK
Rohit Krishnan — holds since 2026-06-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A compound's AI origin story is not by itself a reason to expect it to do better in the clinic. — tap to centre the map on it
A compound's AI origin story is not by itself a reason to expect it to do better in the clinic.
Last stated 2 years ago
13 May 2024
DL
Derek Lowe — holds since 2024-05-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A computational discovery platform does not make a biotech fast, because the thousand other steps of drug development are still the bottleneck. — tap to centre the map on it
A computational discovery platform does not make a biotech fast, because the thousand other steps of drug development are still the bottleneck.
Last stated 2 years ago
17 Sept 2024
AT
Alex Telford — holds since 2024-09-17 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A computational method can regularly predict protein structures with atomic accuracy even when no similar structure is known. — tap to centre the map on it
A computational method can regularly predict protein structures with atomic accuracy even when no similar structure is known.
Last stated 5 years ago
15 Jul 2021
DH
Demis Hassabis — holds since 2021-07-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: "Carbon intensity" metrics let oil companies claim climate progress even as their total emissions rise from increased production. — tap to centre the map on it
"Carbon intensity" metrics let oil companies claim climate progress even as their total emissions rise from increased production.
Last stated 2 months ago
9 Sept 2026
EA
Emily Atkin — holds since 2026-09-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A direct line runs from the Genesis command to subdue the earth to the Industrial Revolution and today's ecological crisis — tap to centre the map on it
A direct line runs from the Genesis command to subdue the earth to the Industrial Revolution and today's ecological crisis
Last stated 4 years ago
18 Oct 2022
YH
Yuval Noah Harari — holds since 2022-10-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A hybrid-electric airliner ends up heavier and more complex than the aircraft it replaces and delivers no fuel saving at all. — tap to centre the map on it
A hybrid-electric airliner ends up heavier and more complex than the aircraft it replaces and delivers no fuel saving at all.
Last stated 6 years ago
2 Apr 2021
BF
Bjorn Fehrm — holds since 2021-04-02 — tap for who they are
same subject or similar wording a cloud: claims about one subject, named for it bar: when it was last stated, on a scale from 2005 to today (stretched back to the oldest claim here) — full is today a face: someone who holds the claim — tap it for who they are