Victor Venema

Scientist. Works on the accuracy of climate trends & open post-publication peer review @Grassr_Journals. My blog: Variable Variability #TeamScience he/hij/er

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It is a good idea to give the minority leader more rights.

It is absurd how McConnell blocked bills & protected his colleagues from openly voting down popular bills. Or that in 2016-17 there were no investigations of Trump.

Let's do this in a bill that goes into effect in 2025.

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@jeneps That is big. No more corporations, who are allowed to bribe politicians, that have an interest in locking up as many Americans as possible.

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@Femi_Sorry I guess this shows how uniquely bad the UK media is. In the German press it was clear that the situation around Northern Ireland was a Gordian Brexit knot.

A good excuse would be that at referendum time many talked about a moderate Brexit,not the implemented extreme Tory Brexit.

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@DavidPepper Well, in America "moderate" means doing what the donors want. That is what "moderate", i.e. corporate, Dems & Republicans agree on.

Portman is leaving because the corporate donors are not willing to finance the too openly Fascist Republican party as much any more. #BadBrand

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@joelockhart I am oppressed. I am super muzzled. I do not even have an article in the New York Post.

Looking forward to Sen. Hawley' plans to give everyone equal access.

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@wokewaifu @christian_nesf A 1000 people poll does mean something. You should just take the uncertainty into account. No idea how good polling in France is, but likely 3 or 4% uncertainty.

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@christian_nesf In France there are 2 rounds of voting. One can call it a "plurality"; I think calling it 26% is the clearest.

TIL that in the UK the term relative majority is used, which sometimes is abbreviated to majority. This will be misunderstood internationally. https://t.co/r9brrofeGi

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@christian_nesf 26%, that is disgusting, but not a majority.

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@kristianpagh @ruth_mottram @martincollignon @ClnHz People should get more sun, but that is not the question here.

The decrease in vitamin D concentrations is only a few percent per month in autumn. And there is a huge spread from person to person. How does that explain a sudden take off in the number of positive infection cases?

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@kristianpagh @ruth_mottram @martincollignon @ClnHz The claim is for the starting date of the surge in positive cases in all of Europe, not just for higher latitudes.

Is Sweden included in the "higher latitudes"? I would call this modest and gradual changes in Vit. D concentrations: https://t.co/LmFNA2cAgQ

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@gjcats @ruth_mottram One of my favorite German science channels just did a video on Vitamin D. https://t.co/9coxWBMpxz

It showed a study on the seasonal cycle of Vit. D in Sweden. It is much smaller than the variability in the population. Looks like storage does a lot. https://t.co/SET9ip7JT2

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@kristianpagh @ruth_mottram @martincollignon @ClnHz Then you are making the case that vitamin D production, rather than vitamin D levels are what counts for infections. The seasonal cycle is modest; we store a lot in our fat deposits.

That we need an explanation could also be jumping to conclusions. https://t.co/u3vAPsSfzz

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@ruth_mottram @martincollignon @ClnHz Although, when I hit reply, and started thinking, as humans often do, I realized that also UV is very gradual.

The main problem of the study may be that it is not pre-registered. Did we see the same earlier in the Southern hemisphere? Do we see the same for US states?

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@ruth_mottram @martincollignon @ClnHz I guess we can exclude Vitamin D as a reason. It is a fat soluble vitamin with a massive storage, if that were the reason there would not be a clear jump, but a very smooth change.

UV kills viruses. That might be part of it.

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