Why don't you read the article, Carl 
the SAME fact checker website did not use twitter stars to fact check articles PRE-covid
https://www.medpagetoday.com/blogs/vinay-prasad/91526 …pic.twitter.com/jkrHEzVeq8
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Why don't you read the article, Carl 
the SAME fact checker website did not use twitter stars to fact check articles PRE-covid
https://www.medpagetoday.com/blogs/vinay-prasad/91526 …pic.twitter.com/jkrHEzVeq8
Given your expertise in causal inference, you can probably figure out that the data aren't sufficient to suggest that twitter prominence leads to selection as a COVID fact-checker. Perhaps, e.g., during a massive pandemic, COVID expertise leads to both.
1. Stop deleting what you are saying when I'm trying to reply 2. Their twitter use is WAY higher than avg. faculty in Epi at Hopkins 3. haha, come on, don't defend this as impartial 'fact checking' here is a link so folks can decide https://www.medpagetoday.com/blogs/vinay-prasad/91526 …pic.twitter.com/Y1qjanxsfr
My favorite part of this is that we can actually do a fairly basic empirical test of whether the idea that twitter royalty is required to be a FB fact-checker is true, or whether it's simply a correlation due to pandemic expertise by looking at pre-pandemic follower counts
Of the people quoted for the healthfeedback piece, the median number of twitter followers was 4,514, with two people having well below 1,000 prior to COVID-19. The mean is skewed up to 35k by Topol
Wrong, Topol is not an expert in the dataset-- he was never a reviewer, his tweet was just quoted in the 'independent fact checking website' that obviosly appropriately selects what articles to review and rate. 

Gideon, you are the king of motivated reasoning, it appears.
Oh, the number is MUCH lower if you only look at reviewers. Of the three reviewers for the piece, Tara had a fairly large account prior to COVID-19, Bill had a tiny one, and I do not believe Marm had one at all
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I was responding to a factual claim with an empirical test. I think it's quite useful to know if the statement is true or not irrespective of whether our opinions align
ur q makes no sense; I've 0 doubt these folks had low followers pre-covid. They have high followers now b/c they have a shared world view, and broadcast that daily, and hence are chosen as reviewers when you could choose rando faculty at hopkins but couldn't guess their 2 c
I mean, it's almost like there's a correlation between gaining a lot of followers during COVID-19 and being interested in publicly commenting on the pandemic. Point is, it's pretty obviously inaccurate to say that being a social media star is a requirement to review
You are missing my point. If you want to fact check fairly, you have to pick articles fairly and pick reviewers fairly. You can't pick Marty's opinion article b/c you dislike it, and then look on twitter to find folks who tweet a ton of material that tells u they will 2
I disagree with the fact checking, but if one supports it the process must be open, transparent, permit rebuttal, appeal, etc. AKA fair; not this
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