Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil)

Today's total fertility rates look very worrisome. Since people today are delaying fertility more and more, they look worse than eventual, completed fertility rate. ...

Statins work by inhibiting the HMG-CoA reductase enzyme. Variations in the HMGCR gene work by affecting HMG-CoA reductase enzymatic activity. The metabolic effect of variation in HMGCR and of taking statins is virtually identical. This gives us a great natural experiment🧵 ...

Does the U.S. overpay for drugs? Common knowledge says "Yes". Real data says "No", because the U.S. gets favorable prices for generic drugs and it primarily consumes generic drugs. In fact, they're 91% of prescriptions! ...

We seem to have an answer to why people suspect India, as as country, is so much smarter than it is. Indian immigration seems to be the most cognitively selective immigration known in the sense that the delta between the country and the immigrants is the largest we know of. <a target="_blank" href...

Compared to twenty years ago, kids are eating some types of ultraprocessed foods more and some types less🧵 For example, one thing there's proportionally less of is sugar-sweetened beverage consumption. Meanwhile, there's relatively greater sweet snack consumption. ...

Researchers put together an incredible workplace wellness program that provided thousands of workers with paid time off to receive biometric health screening, health risk assessments, smoking cessation help, stress management, exercise, etc. What did this do for their health?🧵 ...

Does sugar make people fat? That's the thesis of tons of books, articles, and bits of popular writing, but is it true? The answer seems to be "no", but the cross-sectional evidence suggests it's "yes". Why? Because people believe the answer is "yes"!🧵 Consider this data:...

I just updated one of my articles a second time. It has to do with Justice Jackson's comments that when Black newborns are delivered by Black doctors, they're much more likely to survive, justifying racially discriminatory admissions. We now know the study contained fraud🧵 ...

What's more convincing? p = 0.04 in a sample of 10 or p = 0.04 in a sample of 1,000,000? 🧵...