Fine essay on absurd & dishonest attack on @hoovlet 'While activists insist biological reality of sex binary is wrong-headed & pernicious, the true threat to science and human dignity is idea that in order to support anyone’s rights we must deny reality.'
But there is also this classic @bmj_latest piece revealing a lack of randomised controlled trials to "determine whether parachutes are effective in preventing major trauma related to gravitational challenge." [link] (I was on the BMJ ed board when this came out).
Wonderful work & thread showing that co-evolution between pathogens and humans ~2-5,000 years ago likely resulted in divergent ancestry-specific selection on immune genes, which incidentally drove increase in genetic risk for Multiple Sclerosis (upon infection with EBV, usually).
A super cool paper about an important topic with a great origin story. Using painstakingly constructed data re nondiscriminatory establishments from Negro Motorist Green Books (1936-1966), it finds that share of nondiscriminatory firms grew with increases in Black population.