Cailin O'Connor

@cailinmeister

Philosopher and applied mathematician at UCI. Author of 'The Misinformation Age' and 'The Origins of Unfairness'. My Erdos-Bacon number is 7. she/her

Irvine, CA
Joined September 2017

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  1. "a flaw...found more heart disease in nondrinkers than in light drinkers. Some of the nondrinkers...used to drink but had quit because of illness...After correcting...they concluded that moderate drinking had no net health benefits."

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  2. Feb 1
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  3. Jan 31

    I really admire Frances Arnold for this retraction, and for her transparency in doing so:

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  4. Jan 31

    This just in - the PDF of my new book 'Games in the Philosophy of Biology' is available free through CUP for the next several weeks. You can download it here:

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  5. Jan 29

    Article by looks at industrial strategies to influence public understanding of science - including use of product defense firms, front groups who pay scientists instead of the company, and shady data reanalysis

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  6. Jan 29

    Hey! Look at that! My third book seems to have been published. It surveys work using game theory in biology and philosophy of biology.

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  7. Jan 28
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  8. Jan 28
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  9. Jan 27
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  10. Retweeted

    New paper in the Harvard Misinformation Review w/ co-author Tom Wilson looking at how (dis)information campaigns work across platforms (Twitter, YouTube, media websites) to cultivate audiences and spread their narratives:

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  11. Retweeted
    Jan 22

    Sometimes the internet is a wonderful place. There's this podcast hosted by an adult and a kid who are talking through my book with on parenting. I love it, it's delightful!

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  12. Jan 23
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    Jan 22

    In my short reply to & Weatherall, I touch on Alex Carey as a pioneer of research on industrial , the relationship he perceived to exist between it and about , Trump & NAFTA in the 90s & that O&W are right to target algorithms.

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  14. Jan 22

    Thanks to the Jefferson Exchange for having me on today to discuss The Misinformation age.

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  15. Jan 22

    "Bwah-ha-ha!" he laughs maniacally. "...I had no idea [feminism] was...doomed as a result of the cultural evolutionary game theory of complementary coordination problems! And this, from one of the...leftist establishment's own scholaresses!" book review

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  16. Jan 21

    Chemistry World on credit incentives in science (including discussion with )

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    Jan 20

    Glad to see our piece up, but people should know that supran is the first author, not me... Big oil is the new big tobacco - and Congress must use its power to investigate | Naomi Oreskes and Geoffrey Supran

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  19. Jan 17

    Who can lobby to expose babies to toxins and go to sleep at night? 6

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  20. Jan 17

    Climate change is obviously so much more serious, but I try to imagine that the distributed and time delayed nature of the effects influenced the reasoning of industries involved. 5

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