-clinical consensus: science is something you vote for.

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Seen in a meme used to describe Marjorie Taylor Greene who is testifying in a lawsuit against her today.

Mrigank Shail, MD. (2022, January 11). Update on Omicron by Dr @mvankerkhove from @WHO’s Q&A https://t.co/NqCOvs59Tl [Tweet]. @mrigankshail. https://twitter.com/mrigankshail/status/1481006646826577925

The Lancet Haematology. (2021, November 12). NEW Viewpoint by @Erik_Klok_MD, @MPaiMD, Menno Huisman & @ProfMakris discussing the epidemiology, pathophysiology, and optimal diagnostic and therapeutic management of vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia #VITT #COVID19Vaccine https://thelancet.com/journals/lanhae/article/PIIS2352-3026(21)00306-9/fulltext https://t.co/9PbjaioA2T [Tweet]. @TheLancetHaem. https://twitter.com/TheLancetHaem/status/1459072729332826123

Beauté, J., Adlhoch, C., Bundle, N., Melidou, A., & Spiteri, G. (2021). Testing indicators to monitor the COVID-19 pandemic. The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(21)00461-8

Carragher, D., Towler, A., Mileva, V. R., White, D., & Hancock, P. J. (2021). Masked face identification is improved by diagnostic feature training. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/e9fq3

Antico, L., & Corradi-Dell’Acqua, C. (2021). Far from the eyes, far from the heart. COVID-19 confinement dampened sensitivity to painful facial features. [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ewvp7

Morgan, O. W., Aguilera, X., Ammon, A., Amuasi, J., Fall, I. S., Frieden, T., Heymann, D., Ihekweazu, C., Jeong, E., Leung, G. M., Mahon, B., Nkengasong, J., Qamar, F. N., Schuchat, A., Wieler, L. H., & Dowell, S. F. (2021). Disease surveillance for the COVID-19 era: Time for bold changes. The Lancet, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01096-5

the Guardian. ‘How UK Doctor Linked Rare Blood-Clotting to AstraZeneca Covid Jab’, 13 April 2021. http://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/apr/13/how-uk-doctor-marie-scully-blood-clotting-link-astrazeneca-covid-jab-university-college-london-hospital.

Qualinclus, Guide d'auto-évaluation pour une école inclusive permet de nourrir la réflexion et les échanges pour les équipes pédagogiques et éducatives qui mettent en place une démarche d'auto-évaluation et d'amélioration continue de la qualité. Il s'adresse aux chefs d'établissement et à l'ensemble de la communauté éducative.

Ravelo, J. L. (2021). ‘Jeremy Farrar: COVID-19 Pandemic “Is Nowhere near Its End”’. Devex. https://www.devex.com/news/sponsored/jeremy-farrar-covid-19-pandemic-is-nowhere-near-its-end-99484.

Volz, E., Mishra, S., Chand, M. et al. Assessing transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7 in England. Nature (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03470-x

COVID-19 Living Evidence. (2020, October 23). Weekly update of COAP As of 23.10.2020, we have indexed 80588 publications: 8902 pre-prints 71686 peer-reviewed publications Pre-prints: BioRxiv, MedRxiv Peer-reviewed: PubMed, EMBASE https://t.co/RaDy1Wm4Hq https://t.co/FYRaYPe8oG [Tweet]. @evidencelive. https://twitter.com/evidencelive/status/1319578431848353793

Mendels, D.-A., Dortet, L., Emeraud, C., Oueslati, S., Girlich, D., Ronat, J.-B., Bernabeu, S., Bahi, S., Atkinson, G. J. H., & Naas, T. (2021). Using artificial intelligence to improve COVID-19 rapid diagnostic test result interpretation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(12). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2019893118

Taylor, Charlie. ‘Ireland Ranked among Best for Covid-19 Innovative Solutions’. The Irish Times. Accessed 7 September 2020. https://www.irishtimes.com/business/innovation/ireland-ranked-among-best-for-covid-19-innovative-solutions-1.4233471.

Mbopi-Keou, F.-X., Pondi, J.-E., & Sosso, M. A. (2020). COVID-19 in Cameroon: A crucial equation to resolve. The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30373-X

But this is a lack of a result in the context of a critical underlying assumption. Yes, the results were 'robust', but could we really be statistically confident that this was not driving the outcome? How tight are the error bounds?