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On beloved "Stuart Little" and "Charlotte's Web" author (and unparalleled essayist) E.B. White's birthday, his moving response to a man who had lost faith in humanity: brainpickings.org/2014/05/06…
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We interrupt your regularly scheduled doomscrolling to bring you a joyful deer prancing across a beach at sunrise 🦌 🌅
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I don’t think mechanistic models are necessarily special. I think they’re effective because they are naturally causal and inherently explainable.
I think any modeling framework that was causal and explainable would be just as effective.
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Our little group of <10 #ImageForensics sleuths cannot possibly keep up with the amount of #FlawCytometry, fake Western blots, and manipulated transwell assays being published after "peer review".
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I don't know who needs to hear this but a claim that was made without any evidence can be rejected without any evidence.
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A history lesson for people who think that history doesn't matter:
What's the big deal about railroad tracks?
The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number.
Why was that gauge used?
Well, because that's the way
