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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 9 May 2020

    Health Nerd Retweeted Peter Hitchens

    The obvious answer is that words can, of course, have more than one meaning. One would assume that a "journalist, author, broadcaster" would be aware of this rather boring fact - dictionaries not being academic textbooks, after all - but then perhaps not 🤷‍♂️https://twitter.com/ClarkeMicah/status/1259105336448999424 …

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    Peter HitchensVerified account @ClarkeMicah
    "Incorrect' @gidmk? How can it be 'incorrect' to publish the Oxford dictionary definition of a word ('stochastic') ? Beats me. https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1259103430301249544 … pic.twitter.com/sWYaAB5x8x
    6:21 AM - 9 May 2020
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      1. Dr Vyom Sharma (ethnic mum)‏ @drvyom 9 May 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        mother of all face-palms.

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      2. Patrick Marcinek‏ @scientist_iam 9 May 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        One should also think that a person wishing to critcise scientific concepts would realise that some words have quite a different meaning within that context. "Significant" or "theory" come to mind.

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      3. Alison Palkhivala‏ @alisonpalk 9 May 2020
        Replying to @scientist_iam @GidMK

        Even "cure"

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      2. Allen Cheng‏ @peripatetical 9 May 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        I looked up the OED. "Stochastic: (2) Randomly determined; that follows some random probability distribution or pattern, so that its behaviour may be analysed statistically but not predicted precisely"

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      3. Operational Incident‏ @OperationalInc1 9 May 2020
        Replying to @peripatetical @GidMK

        It looks like your man here is quoting a Shorter OED compiled before the 2nd edition OED (1989). Since the latter meaning is first attested in 1917 it wouldn’t have made the first edition by 1928. The pitfalls of appealing to false authority!

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      1. Dr Paul Mackey‏ @auscandoc 9 May 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        Can’t say I can trace back to the original origin of this enlightening repartee. However it did remind me of a key running gag of last week’s @Coodabeens : that Aus journos are sudden experts in graphs and tables. 😉

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      1. gmopundit (David Tribe Ph.D.) Vinceremo‏ @gmopundit 9 May 2020
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        It is way out of date. Many old words are. Woke for example

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