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David Zweig

@davidzweig

Author of INVISIBLES and AN ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION. Order now: https://amzn.to/3Q3k44c Subscribe: http://SilentLunch.net Clips: NYT, Atlantic, NYmag, TFP, Wired.

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💥🔥🧨 I am beyond excited to announce that I will be writing AN ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION, a book for @mitpress, about the schools debacle in America during the pandemic. The book, in essence, will be a case study of how and why bad decisions are made THREAD 1/12


To be clear: All Guinness World Records earned during this time are invalid because they do not include the entire world. @GWR: are you blocking record attempts from dozens of totalitarian regimes, military aggressors, and countries with flagrant human rights violations?

NEW 🔴 Guinness World Records has informed Israel’s kidney donation organization ‘Matnat Chaim’ that it is no longer accepting or processing submissions from Israel. This came to light when the charity approached Guinness about certifying a planned event in Jerusalem to gather…

Osint613's tweet image. NEW 🔴

Guinness World Records has informed Israel’s kidney donation organization ‘Matnat Chaim’ that it is no longer accepting or processing submissions from Israel. 

This came to light when the charity approached Guinness about certifying a planned event in Jerusalem to gather…


Former Obama White House adviser says that Democrats' support of Israel was against "racial equality." Around half of Jewish Israelis are Mizrahi/Sephardi (i.e. African & Asian, or expelled from Iberia). It's inconvenient for the the white colonizer narrative, but true.

davidzweig's tweet image. Former Obama White House adviser says that Democrats' support of Israel was against "racial equality." 

Around half of Jewish Israelis are Mizrahi/Sephardi (i.e. African & Asian, or expelled from Iberia). It's inconvenient for the the white colonizer narrative, but true.

Benjamin Franklin would like a word.

Going to bed late is associated with a higher IQ.

NTFabiano's tweet image. Going to bed late is associated with a higher IQ.


This is a good evidence–based analysis of the shift leftward, from economic concerns and other interests of everyday Americans toward identity politics, of the Democratic party platform over the last decade. welcomestack.org/p/deciding-to-…


During the pandemic, economists, among others, were told to stay in their lane. Health officials were the only “experts.” Except, unlike the epidemiologists and doctors who shut down schools, economists weigh second order effects—i.e. unintended consequences. And here we are.

In the middle of the heartbreaking New York Times story on child sex trafficking in Los Angeles: "Part of that boom happened during the pandemic, when many girls were out of school and immersed in social media, where traffickers lurked. Teachers who would ordinarily follow up on…

ajlamesa's tweet image. In the middle of the heartbreaking New York Times story on child sex trafficking in Los Angeles: "Part of that boom happened during the pandemic, when many girls were out of school and immersed in social media, where traffickers lurked. Teachers who would ordinarily follow up on…


As I detail in An Abundance of Caution, American pediatricians—the “experts”—recommended *against* early exposure to peanuts; many did so for nearly 20 years, which was the opposite of what they should have said, causing great harm to untold numbers of kids. They did this despite…

davidzweig's tweet image. As I detail in An Abundance of Caution, American pediatricians—the “experts”—recommended *against* early exposure to peanuts; many did so for nearly 20 years, which was the opposite of what they should have said, causing great harm to untold numbers of kids. They did this despite…

Few people are more insufferable than a smug, woke, ignorant tv “comedian.” The irritation isn’t so much that he is obviously wrong about this and so many other things. It’s that he’s so pleased with himself.

John Oliver slams Bari Weiss' takeover of CBS News: "I wouldn’t want anyone who led a pure opinion outlet, not even one that I happened to agree with, to suddenly be running CBS News. But it is especially alarming to have someone doing it who has spent years putting out work…

Variety's tweet image. John Oliver slams Bari Weiss' takeover of CBS News: 

"I wouldn’t want anyone who led a pure opinion outlet, not even one that I happened to agree with, to suddenly be running CBS News. But it is especially alarming to have someone doing it who has spent years putting out work…


Abundance of Caution

davidzweig's tweet image. Abundance of Caution

Equity (ie proportional representation for each demographic) is fundamentally at odds with science and human nature. Remarkable story in obesity research of scholars who still don’t understand this. sensible-med.com/p/a-cancellati…

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A Cancellation and a Firing at Obesity

How an Editor-in-Chief gets silenced and then canceled.


Why are blinding headlights the norm now? It’s ridiculous. How has NHTSA not regulated this?


The sources of AI training is a deep epistemological problem that society has not remotely reckoned with. In a decade from now “reality/truth/history” will be determined to a significant extent by the content of the training.

Wikipedia is hopelessly biased. An army of left-wing activists maintain the bios and fight reasonable corrections. Magnifying the problem, Wikipedia often appears first in Google search results, and now it’s a trusted source for AI model training. This is a huge problem.



A reminder that we still have not reckoned with the fact that regular people objectively outperformed the “experts” in predicting outcomes during the pandemic. I cover this and more in my book: An Abundance of Caution

So much amazing material in @davidzweig's book Abundance of Caution. This passage stunned even me. The professional disease modelers were consistently outperformed in accuracy by complete outsiders who work in industry. amazon.com/Abundance-Caut…

jeffreytucker's tweet image. So much amazing material in @davidzweig's book  Abundance of Caution. This passage stunned even me. The professional disease modelers were consistently outperformed in accuracy by complete outsiders who work in industry. amazon.com/Abundance-Caut…


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Journalist and author @davidzweig joins Greg to unpack how politics, media, and misplaced expertise shaped school closure policies during COVID—and the lasting impact on children’s education and mental health. Check the full episode at buff.ly/iBF1Qhl | @mitpress


This could be a revealing film. I look forward to watching it! @AppletoZucchini was a great advocate for kids during the pandemic.

🚨"15 DAYS to slow the spread."🚨 Six words that changed everything. 500+ days of closed schools, isolated kids, and broken trust. The TRUTH is here. Our EXCLUSIVE NEW TRAILER drops NOW! 👀 Watch it. Share it. Demand answers. #15Days 1/10



David Zweig أعاد

Paramount condemns the Israeli film boycott after Emma Stone, Joaquin Phoenix, and nearly 4,000 others pledge to avoid Israeli film companies accused of “genocide and apartheid against Palestinians.” "At Paramount, we believe in the power of storytelling to connect and inspire…

Variety's tweet image. Paramount condemns the Israeli film boycott after Emma Stone, Joaquin Phoenix, and nearly 4,000 others pledge to avoid Israeli film companies accused of “genocide and apartheid against Palestinians.”

"At Paramount, we believe in the power of storytelling to connect and inspire…

David Zweig أعاد

Research suggests that closing schools didn’t substantially impact Covid outcomes. Given how quickly schools reopened in European nations, there was already data backing this finding by mid-spring 2020. To answer Michael Hobbes’ question, the other option was to reopen schools…

benryanwriter's tweet image. Research suggests that closing schools didn’t substantially impact Covid outcomes. Given how quickly schools reopened in European nations, there was already data backing this finding by mid-spring 2020. To answer Michael Hobbes’ question, the other option was to reopen schools…

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