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The Case Against Masks In Schools
A survey of the data on risks for kids and why I oppose mask mandates in schools
Matt Shapiro
Aug 20, 2021
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A Long One About The Florida Data Scandal
Hoo boy, I didn’t intend for this to get so long. If you’re interested in the real story of what happened to the fired Florida data scientist, you may…
Matt Shapiro
May 22, 2020
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The Case Of The Abandoned Metrics
Changing our metrics to suit our narratives has caused confusion, frustrated the honest, and destroyed public trust
Matt Shapiro
Jan 4, 2022
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The Fallacy of Red Covid
The New York Times stated that Covid has become a virus afflicting Republicans, but their methodology was deceptive through inexplicable omissions
Matt Shapiro
Apr 21, 2022
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Essential Terms of the Authority Crisis
Through no small amount of dishonesty and incompetence, institutions of authority are crumbling and the nature of expertise is changing.
Matt Shapiro
Jun 22, 2022
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CDC Failures Will Spawn Institutional Alternatives
When the CDC failed in its mission during the pandemic, the marketplace for trustworthy expertise responded with worthy alternatives.
Matt Shapiro
Feb 8
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Science Goes Too Slow For The News
Last year's misinformation on vaccine-associated myocarditis in young men is this year's well-established fact
Matt Shapiro
Sep 6, 2022
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How The New Right Trusts Experts
Listen now (12 min) | The claim that the emerging right-wing has abandoned elite expertise has merit but misses the ways in which they continue to rely…
Matt Shapiro
Oct 25, 2022
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Your State's COVID Numbers In Context
I spent a lot of time on this so you didn’t have to read the whole thing. A lot of people have asked me on Twitter how their particular state is doing…
Matt Shapiro
Jul 21, 2020
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Vaccines for Children (5-11 years old)
The VRBPAC meeting that approved vaccines for young kids did not at all sound like people who are mindlessly pro-vaccine
Matt Shapiro
Nov 9, 2021
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Let's Renew Shame for the Censors
The overwhelming indifference to Twitter's recent display of censorship shows that we need more social pressure to discourage government censorship
Matt Shapiro
Jan 5
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Against Iconoclasm
The Roald Dahl controversy points to the much deeper corporate cultural problem of treating art as disposable
Matt Shapiro
Mar 4
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