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So many answers to my post are of the type "we're owning China by banning foreign students to Harvard", "we get nothing for educating foreigners", "with this we'll teach Americans and not our competitors", etc. It's astonishing to see how ignorant Americans can be with regards

Promoting linkrot as a deliberate strategy.... I'd prefer a policy that government websites are forever, as a way of archiving what each agency was doing at a given time.

If DOGE wanted to improve technical efficiency, how about improving the gov website that asks me (as a peer reviewer) to jump through unnecessary hoops: "You should select a password with a minimum character length of 12 and it should contain a mixture of upper and lowercase

Blockbuster, if true. I've long worried that synthetic control methods could be overfitting on steroids.

I'm not sure I agree with this thesis. A 4th reason that readers might not already know something: the space of useful things to know is so vast that thinkers like Socrates, Einstein, & Newton have said that they still felt ignorant.

The world needs more people like David Roodman who care about truth: replicationnetwork.com/2025/05/31/roo…

Elon is wising up. Still, this is a reconciliation bill, which means it is only about mandatory spending programs--Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc. There is zero "pork barrel spending."

Totally making America great:

Like I have said from the beginning: the Department of Government Inefficiency. washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…

I wonder why DOGE has been bragging about so many cancellations of contracts that are low-dollar and probably quite useful (here, a $71.3k contract for media training).

Not sure how efficient it is to worsen the quality of our inflation estimates: wsj.com/economy/cpi-in…

New Paragon Health Institute report out today by Stuart Buck Few key problems: 1) Too many NIH studies can't be replicated 2) Publication bias—favoring positive results over null results 3) Favoring risk-averse, incremental research over transformative work paragoninstitute.org/public-health/…

New piece on NIH reform, in partnership with the Paragon Institute: paragoninstitute.org/public-health/…

My piece on 'DOGE done better' out today - I realise it may be sidelined by the X algorithms as it's not wholly positive about Elon M: rather it says some of the questions DOGE asked were good ones, even though the answers were poor. demos.co.uk/research/doge-…

This guy's advice is literally dangerous. The product's own website says this is only for children over 12 months (below that age, human babies need fatty acids that aren't in cow milk).

Appalling: "According to one internal email..., staff members had to respond in 255 characters or fewer" to justify why a contract was essential to VA. propublica.org/article/trump-…

People still talking generally about seed oils as though they're all one thing - they commonly vary in their omega 6, omega 3 and omega 9 content. Even oils with the same name (eg safflower) have high n6 and high no (high-oleic) varieties. Some seed oils (eg palm kernel) are

There’s a common misconception among scientists, especially trainees, that the BBB, Trump’s budget bill, currently under Senate review cuts NIH funding by 40%. In reality, this bill doesn’t concern NIH funding - it focuses on mandatory spending and some Trump priorities m: tax